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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: that it is a necessity, no Athenian records of gambling made
splendid by the talents of its professors, no contention that
instead of violating morals it only violates a legal institution
which is in many respects oppressive and unnatural, no possible
plea that the instinct on which it is founded is a vital one.
Prostitution can confuse the issue with all these excuses:
gambling has none of them. Consequently, if Mrs Warren must
needs be a demon, a bookmaker must be a cacodemon. Well, does
anybody who knows the sporting world really believe that
bookmakers are worse than their neighbors? On the contrary, they
have to be a good deal better; for in that world nearly everybody
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