ETHICS OF GAMBLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 8

ETHICS OF GAMBLING.

The religio-metaphvsico, Mr. MeHaigh, writes that I have taken "the first steps towards dropping the whole of the Rationalistic stipeiotitions so dogmatically put abroad by RatiOnalist propagandists." I leave it to your readers whose eves are not so impermeabiy sealed to assess a statement so at variance with truth. It is so far removed from that attribute as to bring it into the line of the humorous. I wonder if he sees it. for his argument is based upon the fact that I choose to explain, ivhich is permitted and warranted., my statement, namely, ''the whole of life from start to finish is a gamble." With his castiron £:rey matter he would be well advised to refrain from entering into- any controversy with those who are prepared to conduct it upon broad and tolerant lines. Mr. MeHaigh has no warrant for introducing matter foreign to the subject. The question" of thieves, murderers and debauchers does not enter into it. He states that his reading the report of the Scots Hfill debate was not a chance. When I say that it was simply by chance that I I entered into it, will he contend that it was deliberately arranged ? In his sapient wisdom i lie states he deliberately arranged to have the I ''.Star" delivered daily. Has he ever realised that some chance might prevent it being delivered, another chance a passerby might steal it ; again, that he might be away, otherwise engaged, too ill, or even dead when itdoes arrive? Under those several circumstances he would not have butted into this- argument. Will he still contend that those are not chances takiner place in evervdav life? C. E. MAJOR."