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Spiritually speaking, is it immoral to own a pawn shop in Vegas or a liquor store in a bad neighborhood?
To take advantage of an opportunity and be in a place where people have weaknesses and despair for profit?
I'm watching "Pawn Stars" on History Channel. A great show, but it's obvious a lot of the people hocking stuff in there are gambling addicts. I once asked a Vegas cab driver about this and he said he drove out-of-towners to the pawn shops all the time after they blew all they had.
There are different ways of looking at this. One is that you have a right to have a business without any regard to location. You aren't responsible for the people becoming addicted to alcohol or gambling, or for the fact that there are casinos or poverty. Another way of looking at is that you are profiting from other people's unfortunate circumstances. That could be seen as immoral.
The liquor store in the bad neighborhood could have been there before it got bad. Just because someone lives in a bad neighborhood, does that mean they shouldn't have any access to liquor? Wouldn't that be imposing our morality on others? On the other hand, it could be dangerous for the liquor store owner or employees to run a business there.
The pawn shop, to my way of thinking would have a higher probability of seeming immoral because in all likelihood, they are there only because of the gambling. It would seem like you couldn't have any compassion or empathy, possibly not a conscience for that. Maybe that's just me, though. I've always thought those places were depressing, perhaps more so in a gambling area.
Very interesting question.
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