Topic: A gambler's family action. - page 14. (Read 1498 times)

This is such a weird scenario but I can understand what the family is doing. Can you confirm how young is this gambler? Is he below the legal age to gamble? If that's the case then it's probably not that extreme for the family to ask the gambling shops not to accommodate him and also to uphold the law prohibiting underage gambling.

The family's way of intervening isn't going to last though since that man will be of legal age sooner or later.

I do not think the family has any legal ground to stand on when threatening casinos to sue them if they accepted the money coming from their family member, however at the same time I do not think it is too extreme, since it is natural that your loved ones will do whatever they can in order to protect you, even if that means going against your wishes, and when it comes to whether or not share the money, I think that assuming he won he will still have to share some of that money with his family, as they are doing this because they care about him and not because they are just trying to make his life difficult for no reason.

This is the reason self exclusion must be an enforceable measure! If a family member is causing substantial harm to his peers by exceeding limits over his addiction, then it should be reasonable for his family to try and limit him for his and their own wellbeing as well. But if that person is completely cut off from the family and independent the family should try to become overreaching.

It honestly all depends on the context. There could be legal grounds on the "brother" to also sue and win himself because if he's sand and not putting himself or others in danger while living alone and maintaining a job for instance, then he's not bothering anybody. Gambling down to your last remaining penny is your right, even if it keeps you poor, but so long as you don't become a burden to others by doing it, no matter how degenerate, wasted potential isn't a good enough excuse for a family to try and commandeer your life.

Furthermore, if a problem gambler doesn't realize the effects of his addiction on his own, he'll never get himself out of the hole he's really digging to his own detriment. Value also exists in understanding your own situation after acceptance. You need to work on yourself other than just being restricted.

Yes, this is an extreme length for gambling and is a case of class addiction to gambling since the whole family is involved in the act and have encouraged the young man with their inaction to stop him from selling personal belonging to fund his gambling,  this is the most evil thing to do,  since gambling has no guarantee of winning and also gambling should just be treated as means of having fun but not to an extreme level were you possibly depends on it to find any part of your life.

So for sure, the families have no case,  because just by declaration that the brother havean  addiction problem alone is not a guarantee since the revelation is made only when he has lost everything.

Okay, so if his family doesn't have any real proof from legitimate institutions saying their brother has a gambling addiction, they probably have no legal basis for a lawsuit.  I mean, the guy's an adult after all.  Unless he literally cant make choices for himself anymore he can do whatever he wants that's legal.  It doesn't sound like the casino did anything wrong here.  The brother makes his own choices, even if they're bad ones.  His family might not like that he gambles too much, but that doesnt mean they can blame the casino and  he goes there of his own free will. So yeah without evidence their brother is actually addicted, the family doesn't have much of a case.

This is so ironical. While many people are gambling dreaming about acquiring enough money to purchase properties and gadgets, this man is selling his in order to gamble... He is going on the exact opposite way he should. Since he already has properties, he should care for them and make them work for him to generate profit and prosperity in his life. Instead, he is wasting everything on gambling, and for what reason? That seems so sick and pointless!

Of course this man needs help, because he is completely out of his mind. His family is trying what they can do help him, and every attempts are valid, in my opinion. They are doing their part to help the young man, although nothing will happen if the man doesn't want to help himself...

During the weekend I was listening to an evening programme from one our the local radio stations they were discussing about gambling, the effects and how to manage it if you might be struggling with  addiction. And they had listeners calling in to share personal experiences or of a loved one that gambles and amidst many callers there was this very caller story that caught my interest and curiosity.

She told about how the family members of a particular young man that is like a plunger when it comes to gambling, his compulsive gambling is to the length of him selling his personal properties and gadgets to make sure he gambles. So what he family did was to print a photograph of him and giving it to all the gambling shops within their neighborhood and around the locality, threatening that any of the gambling shops they have pasted the photo of their brother should they find their brother allowed to gamble in the shops they will sue the gamble shop owner to court as one that is abetting their brother's compulsive gambling lifestyle.

Now, while I was quietly listening to the story in my head I began to ask myself several possible  questions and one of such questions was; is it not possible that this young man can take a cab away from their location and move to a far area to carry out his gambling since his a compulsive gambler.

Just two questions here:
1. Dis the family of this young man went too extreme in trying to help stop their brother from gambling addiction or not?

2. Assuming you are this young man and you had to run to a distant location to carry out your gambling as you are allowed to gambling within your neighborhood and luckily you won huge sum of million dollars. Would you share that money with your loved ones who were barring you from gambling or you will just stay off from them and live new found wealthy live alone?

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