Quote Originally Posted by Larrii View Post
It's a bit like banning horse-racing. Some will say it's cruel to the horse. Ban it, and lots of people will organise races anyway.

Ban it, and the government loses several thousand more votes at the next election.

Ban it, and lose the tax you could make from it!
Approx 10% of males have punted as a general rule, I suspect in Ireland it may be 15-20%! If the government wants to bring in laws as per the insane joint Oireachtas committee in part equating punters to child molesters (for merely looking at Escort Ireland!) then there will be a reaction at the ballot box, there's only a certain amount of insanity that can be tolerated even in Ireland!