Topic: Ambivalent attitude to gambling - page 5. (Read 686 times)

I think the main reason why people have different attitudes towards gambling is the way they are advertise.  Aside from government regulation and acceptance, the religious view towards gambling, I believe that the gambling products advertisement has huge impact on the attitude of people towards gambling products.  Like for example, in country A sports betting is greatly marketed while in country B casino were being focused on promotion.  It is obvious that in country A people will be more embracing toward sports betting while country B will be more friendly towards casinos.  In short, it is how and what kind of gambling is being exposed to the people.

Social aspect is left out here. Some people like to go out and have a good time sitting at the table games and be social with the other gamblers. Look at all your online sites, they all have chat rooms as well to allow people to be social.



This should probably be moved to gambling discussion board

I would say that gambling and alcohol being available in a society has little to do with the degree of happiness in that society.
For example, we can see at those countries which are thought to be the happiest on the planets: Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, etc. Those are democratic countries and Republics where people have the freedom to drink alcohol and also to gamble, so I do not think there is a direct correlation between both things.

The true unhappiness I would say, comes from the inability of the population to earn money working on the profession they chose, and desperation makes then turn into gambling and alcohol. There are too many social and economical factors to keep in mind when touching this topic.

It is a great fact that gambling is not the main factor of people's unhappiness as in some countries the governments make it seem, but it must also be admitted that gambling is easily addictive because of its nature which is possible with very lucky to earn a lot of money putting little money, as on the internet, on tv and even in the real world people have heard stories of people who bought lottery tickets and won millions of US dollars, makes this type of stories a form of motivation for many people, although in my opinion it shouldn't be like that

but it is a fact that alcoholic beverages, which are in large quantities anywhere, are one of the biggest problems that have created many people addicted to alcoholic beverages, but like many breweries, the owners are people linked to governments, so there is no mention of this danger of alcohol, but as in the case of online gambling, there are no government people connected to online casinos, so governments take tough measures against online casinos, that is, laws work for some and not for others, so society creates a bad image about gambling and especially when they are online

I swear to God. The thread is like Novel called, "So Long A Letter", o men the write up is too long. For me, casino games has the highest risk than the sport betting. Sport betting is just a prediction which you just do at once and relax and wait for the outcome of the prediction. But casino games, you have to be there monitoring the game out come. So the risk involve in casino is more than sport betting

This is true. Religion is what makes gambling have a stigma on a country with strong religion like Christianity and Islam. Gambling can be considered as a leisure games since its impact on finance of someone will not gonna be huge if he knew how to handle it.

The risk is not the problem but the way religion put a negative impression on gambling since they are relying on the negative result on gambling addicts and ignore all those entertainment given on most of the player. Until now, I’m still ashamed to know my family that I’m gambling even if I have a white collar job with good salary. I’m living too on my own yet my mother will surely give me a beating when they knew that I play gambling.

Something is not right from the start. Why are sports betting and casino games even more high risk than lotteries when you don't even have 1% chance of winning on lotteries?
It must be a chance of winning that is to be explained than the price of the ticket when we talk about risk. But it could be because government represents lotteries giving back money to foundations. I think the attitude toward gambling products varies for each person, I think when you grow up in a suburb seeing your father work from 9-5, you would not waste a dime even on a lottery.

Lottery is a form of gambling, the only difference is recognition from the law, in most instances wherein Lottery providers are registered and are being taxed by governments which makes it more accessible to public. Unlike with gambling in general which consists of different gambling games, and most of the time are not registered.

Difference or mixed viewpoints towards gambling is more likely because of beliefs (including religious aspects) and morality. It is self explanatory with regards to religious viewpoint wherein gambling is considered a sin to most of the religions. Morality on the other hand has something to do with the norm in the society given that its negative side is more obvious.

Religion and the culture affects the whole perception to every gambler and we cannot change that one, what we can do is to accept it.
This is why most of the gambler prefer to gamble on their own and play online than to go to casinos. Different perception to gambling varies on every belief and culture, there's no way to change this one because religion comes a long way even before gambling. If this is against the belief of your community, expect to receive lots of criticism, just focus on what you think is right and be responsible for that.

Nothing will change, if you combine an attitude of ambivalence, that attitude is always side by side with every gambler, especially for those who are already heavily addicted.

You must know someone who is involved in the world of gambling, whether it's online or offline, whether it's you, myself or someone else, always has a contradictory attitude, in another sense, namely being passive-aggressive when you experience losing or winning in gambling, because we know when making bets in gambling what will happen, such as: events, situations, emotions, losses and so on, that's when positive attitudes and negative actions arise in us.

No wonder someone who is involved in gambling is always in conflict with two things, namely hate and love, negative and positive, these two things often happen when betting on lotteries, slots, poker and so on, for that anyone who gambles always has an ambivalent attitude, that attitude will not change at any time.

Although there is an ambivalent attitude towards gambling, lotteries are not among them. Lottery system separate jackpots are huge, which is the main attraction for lottery ticket buyers. In particular, large payout lotteries like Powerball tend to increase ticket sales when the jackpot continues to roll. Gambling is more risky than lottery. Lotteries are included through the sale of tickets but gambling addictions lead to bad outcomes and they affect not only the addict, but also their family and social environment.

The critics of gambling opined that more people lose in gambling their money than they gain from it. And if we compare this to what we see around us we may also believe this as it further creates wealth for gambling casinos and game shops. To buttress this point, you see more gambling houses being established which points to submit with the critics that losses are more on the part of players which is why more game house are springing up. The symbolic idea therefore is that it takes from the majority and gives to the few who are probably rich thereby creating more wealth inequality because you hardly win more against owner.

About the social issues that emanate from gambling, some critics also allude that it leads people into bad vices especially the young and youths who are easily convinced follow their friends in taking part in illicit activities other than gambling. This critism is subjective however because it depends on individual.

Government lottery systems are the most significant questionable system. Arnt you not question the total financial system of the government by being an active member of this forum? Then how can you say they are transparent? Your statement is just jargon to my brain.


The risk is always the same but they think the financial loss is much lower than gambling. I haven't seen, heard, or read of anyone spending every day $10 on buying lottery tickets. The max they would pay is like $100 on those lottery tickets. The financial risk is very less with lotteries when compared to gambling on a casino.

Since all that is written are your thoughts then there is no need to share any link since you don't quote any external content in your discussion and also why the user requested for a link is because of the lengthy episode written just to pass your messages.

And also there is no doubt that most of the things you mentioned in this thread are what we have been discussing here on the board and we have always pointed them out and served as a warning to the rest of the forum members.

I have heard different opinions about gambling over the years. You're right, all I've written is my thoughts. Does the discussion of any topic require constant references to various sources? I want to hear the opinion of the others. You may disagree with me and share your opinion on the topic

Exactly, that's what I meant. Lotteries are part of gambling, where people spend money for a chance to get a potentially big win. People may hate casino games, but they buy lottery tickets every day and say that gambling is bad. Although they also gamble

I don't agree with your opinion about your comparison of casinos and lotteries you tend to generalize your comparison, here in our country lotteries are government-run and they run on transparency openness, and honesty that is why after three decades not one questions the results of the lottery.

The data will always be headed up and many more casinos online and offline are launching this is the most lucrative industry, and they sustained a lot of business, like entertainment, catering business and employ millions of people and of course, the taxes that the government is enjoying.
Even in countries where gambling is prohibited, it flourishes underground because there will always be gambling supporters and communities, and where there are communities you can always find gamblers.

It seems that lotteries are not included in gambling because we may experience seeing many people collecting tickets from shopping, collecting points, or others, which can be exchanged for certain prizes depending on the number of their tickets. Even though it falls into the gambling category, the business owner packages it into entertainment with prizes so that it makes people not see it as gambling.

The lottery has now changed into many varieties and forms so people don't think it is a hidden gamble. They keep collecting as many tickets as possible to get their desired prizes. So it depends on the attitude of each person. If they judge the lottery as gambling, they can't buy and leave it. Or if they feel that's okay or not a form of gambling, they can buy the ticket or collect as much of the lottery as possible.

Gambling is a way of life that those who criticize gambling can't understand. Gambling is part of human and nothing can change it. Though,the strong religious people can see it from this side because it is against their belief.

Because it ruins those people that don't have self-control over their gambling activities due to addiction. It will never change,because everyone has his own perspective on gamble

If I must getting something from all you said is just about lotteries/gambling..
Let me draw your attention on these aspect of your post, I can't dispute the fact all you said is correct but there is a sentence you said that Lotteries are guaranteed and trusted more than gambling.



On my little keyboard punch from Wikipedia

"Gambling is the wagering of something of value on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration, risk, and a prize."

From the above quote, Lotteries and Gambling posses the same qualities, whatever activities that leads to you staking money is gambling, and in lottery you also buy a ticket to stand a chance of winning something big which also involves staking money. I don't know why people should treat gambling as something very risky, whereas both of them posses same risk factor of one intending to lose money, as a matter of fact, Gambling specifically sport betting often carry's a higher amount of players (Gambler who stakes over the sport). When we talk about the risk factors of some casino's or gambling site scamming their bettors, you also flash or google as well to know some of those people who won lotteries they have refused to payout such huge amount of money which was resulted in law case.
I wouldn't want gambling to be painted as something very bad over lotteries whereas they both posses same quality and tendency of one losing their stake amount.