Again, it's an issue of personal liberties which is clearly not important to you.
No, personal liberties are very important to me.
The right to liberty exists outside of society, but the decisions about to practice it oneself and to enforce it for others is a moral position.
The old saying, “Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose,” is a moral position, one that works very well for society.
Robinson Crusoe didn’t need to care much about personal liberty until he ran into Friday. An omnipotent ruler wouldn’t have to care much about another’s nose or personal liberty, either.
In the case of our society, we enforce everyone’s right to liberty by government, in our case, a representative government. As a State, we’ve decided to limit - regulate - the business of gambling because of gambling’s risk to liberty and property.
Look up the relative costs of gambling to states and cities. (I’m on my way to a meeting, can’t do it, now.)