Topic: Benefits of gambling? Yes - it exists! - page 3. (Read 3165 times)

This question is like benefits of robbing, looting or corruption etc. because the money in gambling is also illegal and the means I mentioned are also illegal. What the different between all these? I think that there are no benefits of gambling because it is not acceptable to any society of the world and a gambler has no respect even in his home.

We don't have to forget that not every person can play game without the appearance of dependence to it. So, there should be a little test maybe with the first game to understand the persons willpower to stop playing when it will be needed.

When we say gambling, it is easily judged and have a negativity impact in so many people. I am also a gambler. I like this thread because what you have said is true. But those things are not buried because of so many negative things regarding gambling. I hope this open the eyes of most people. It is not the gambling itself that is bad, it is the person that abbuse gambling.

well said!
I don't really think that most of the people who has the gambling (or any other addiction) problem understand that and think this includes them.

Yes, this is exactly how addiction is formed. If we get pleasure from something we need more of it after a certain period of time. But what is more and how long is that period of time is what matters most. For example, if you were gambling 1 hour per day 10 years ago and today you are gambling 2 hours per day, I wouldn't call that forming an addiction. Gambling 2 hours per day is still okay as long as you are not losing more than you can afford to lose. Also, it's never too late to go back. With good professional help gambling addiction can be cured. I'm personally aware of couple of examples. But those were difficult cases. In fact only a small percentage of gamblers become addicted eventually. Most people can control themselves.

So do you mean that there are some people getting rich from gambling is not a benefit? Casinos also giving a chance for people to get a job, it is also a benefit. The most simple thing, getting new friends while you are gambling is not a benefit as well?
I wonder why do you think gambling as a very bad thing with no benefits at all.

I don’t think that there are any benefits of gambling. Many people committed suicides because of their debts in gambling. When they lose money and even everything in gambling and there is no source of overcoming these debts then they commit suicide. They are free but the problem is for their families. Now tell me what are the benefits of gambling?

Having friendly people in physical casinos doesn’t mean that a bad thing would change in good thing. The whole world admits that gambling is not good and gamblers have no respect even in their homes. Their children do not like them, because they lose all the money from which they can do many things for their families. It is a fact and not propaganda.

Unless maybe to have some strategy to help you prolong your game by putting into check some form of probability and using that to gamble, I really do not see how this would in any way help anyone when it comes to gambling, Irrespective of your knowledge in mathematics or whatever, it still all balls down to luck and for what I can see so far, a lot of people who tend to rely on something to favor them in gambling are the ones who usually end up as an addict quickly.

If you gamble just for fun and not for making money then you will enjoy gambling and that is the only benefit of gambling that you visit a casino with your friends and family members. Benefit of having some enjoyment with your lovers and apart from this there is no other benefit of gambling. Gambling is a bad thing and the whole world admits that gambling is not good.

I agree with you, there can also be some pronzi scams like Bitconnect with fake afiliations where you will lose out in the end.

Gambling has some benefits, but there is a lot of propaganda out there that condemns it just because a few people get addicted to it, but to deny that there are some benefits is a mistake, if you play in a physical casino you'll find friendly people there and you can make new friends, sometimes you can even make business contacts by going to the casino, that is in fact a very common practice in my country where two businessman after making a deal go to the casino to celebrate, also if you like to make sports bets you'll soon understand that you will need an advanced knowledge of mathematics and probabilities to become a winner.

There are also things that are important in gambling that remain the same discussion as in terms of discipline. Send people successfully using the marks of people who are disciplined and do not want to take advantage of a lot of time in any problem.

It is hard to take the positive side of gambling. It is like you look for a needle in a hay stack. Only thing we could do is try not to get addicted. As long as money involved in this game, we would come back in hope of making a fortune from gambling. In my country, gambling is portrayed as a very bad thing. If you let others know that you are a gambler then, it will only do bad for your career.

So pretty much what you are saying is that it is also a gamble to be able to reap the positive effects of gambling. I agree with that and I think there are different ways to get these positive effects without having to indulge into gambling at all. Gambling does not offer anything unique that we cannot get from other experiences so there is literally no reason to gamble and no excuse to be addicted to it. People just don't have this initial idea so they indulge in gambling.

In terms of making new friends, I have observed that all you can get from this environment is nothing but shallow friendship. It can easily break as it was never deep to start with. I wouldn't even consider those people as 'friends', I would consider them as 'playmates'. I started labeling people correctly so I know where they belong in my life. Friends that you picked up from some bad habit are pretty much just your mates in that part of life and nothing else. They are not able to support you in any other life aspect and they can't give you emotional support as well. Friends (as in actual friends) are quite rare and that's what makes them special. The rest of what you consider "friends" aren't really your friends and will drift off right when you stop doing what you usually do together, in this case, gambling.

I never really believed in the idea of "controlling your emotions". There's only Stoicism (which is displaying no emotion/feelings during misfortunes) and the oppression of your emotions. You can never control your emotions as they come to you naturally (and that's what makes humans superior to other animals).

In addition to making money, gambling can also train us to be able to control emotions well. We can also get new friends there who might be our relationship for business. But of course there is a bad impact from gambling, besides losing money we will also be trapped and addicted to continue gambling if we are not able to control emotions, even worse we will begin to owe to gamble. So we must be wiser to take the positive side of the gambling game.

A lot of the lives destroyed by gambling to me are self-inflicted and should not in any way be put on gambling itself. People with their greedy and unrealistic mindset usually feel that gambling is a way to set them on the wealthy part and the question they always forget to ask is that. Where does that leave the owners of the casino or gambling platform ?

This is gambling and the earlier people started accepting that fact that there is nothing like winning in gambling except you are just very lucky which is rare to a very large extent, then the better it would be for them to have the right mindset when it comes to gambling or not even just gambling at all if they cannot control themselves.

There's a line that separates the amount of how much beer intake (or gambling bets/amount) is okay and what's not considered 'too much'. The problem is, that line is rather very blurry and is very dynamic. A person, who is drinking one beer a day (or gambling for 30 minutes a day), can easily tell other people that they have more beer than they used to (or gambled more or longer than they used to) and still look acceptable and 'normal' to the society. People think that the person probably had a good time and was just trying to have fun. As time goes by, our brain gets used to that certain amount and so it seeks more just as you would seek more of it as it is enjoyable or fun. The numbers increase a bit, no one cares. It bits even more, no one bats an eye. You start to notice it, that it's okay to go higher and still be 'A-okay' to the people around you and so you increase it even more. Now you're at the number far from what you used to. At some point you would realize that no one really cares about your habits and that no matter how much you go higher, no one really cares until it starts to affect you or the people around you negatively. But at that point you're already dependent on the habit and it's too late to go back.

Now, now.. Is this how addiction is formed?

When viewed from household and financial advantages, for example, you win in a match, you will get money. Your money can make your household happy and money can make your money safe

Good thing you see it as a form of entertainment, and I hope you are being truthful to yourself. It is normal to feel good when you win big from gambling, no doubt, but what is important is to never forget that as much as you might want to win big even with the entertainment which is something I feel is a cover-up for most people, forgetting that aspect where gambling can make you lose a lot and the chances are high can make you make regrettable decisions.