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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

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Don't the celebrity charity gambling tourneys do this? Or at least whoever actually sets up the tournament put out the proceeds towards charities. I actually think it's fine, people can have fun if they want and they can help at the same time. And it's only gambling, it's not like your killing people for money. It's also a tournament where people are FREE to join, meaning it's a WILLING participation. If it was forced then yeah I guess they could start questioning, but it's not lol.

Never had one, and I don't think there ever will be. At most the Bingo tourneys that happen here were just amongst my neighbors. Highly doubt you'd see those people try to set up a charity session.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

Yes

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Charity gambling is a "form of incentivized giving" where a charity (or a group of charities), rather than a municipality or private casino, oversees gambling activities such as bingo, roulette, lottery, and slot machines and uses the proceeds to further its charitable aims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_gambling

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

In general, I think it is fine if it is used in lotteries above all, which is what I have seen the most because it is a type of betting that has a very low risk of abuse and addiction. Roulette and slots I do not see it so well precisely because of the opposite, and I have never heard of charity that is financed with these activities. Bingo is OK IMO, as it is something in between.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Yes of course. People that have money will gamble and be given to those that do not have money. For those that does not have money, it will also create a sense of not wasting money on gambling.

Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

If charity gambling or charity gambling site does not exist, there will still be gambling sites and what such people are complaining about is not going to change. People will gamble. So I do not see this as an excuse.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

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Charity gambling is a "form of incentivized giving" where a charity (or a group of charities), rather than a municipality or private casino, oversees gambling activities such as bingo, roulette, lottery, and slot machines and uses the proceeds to further its charitable aims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_gambling

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

One example of this kind of charity gambling is the Dutch Postcode Lottery.

https://www.postcodelotterygroup.com/what-we-do/nationale-postcode-loterij/

Seems like a nice front for a Casino to get a lot more business and money in the name of good works and charity. Unless they are providing say 80-90 or 100% of the money to the charitable cause then its all just another strategy to make more money by taking advantage of the goodness of someone's heart. Idk, its tough becasue part of me thinks that some good may come of this even despite any potential greed.

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Gambling, regardless if it’s for charity cause or not, still it would create some risk and negative effects to those people whole will eventually fall on gambling addiction. Same with lottery in our country, we all know that some of its proceeds will go to some charities but on the other hand, people who keep on betting and losing at the same way are now suffering from financial crisis. So I don’t think the whole gambling actually serves its purpose, but it’s more on spreading gambling addiction to those who have weak emotions towards gambling.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

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Charity gambling is a "form of incentivized giving" where a charity (or a group of charities), rather than a municipality or private casino, oversees gambling activities such as bingo, roulette, lottery, and slot machines and uses the proceeds to further its charitable aims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_gambling

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

One example of this kind of charity gambling is the Dutch Postcode Lottery.

https://www.postcodelotterygroup.com/what-we-do/nationale-postcode-loterij/

Generally we are not familiar with these gambling because gambling is illegal in my country, these gambling are most known in developed countries and is a sign to earn money.
But all the casino or betting games we are most familiar with are played in secret, I am not affiliated with this charity gambling and I have not gambled for charity.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

https://www.postcodelotterygroup.com/what-we-do/nationale-postcode-loterij/

What if we careless about where the proceeds go and pay more attention to the gambling itself. If played in the same environment where the charity beneficiaries live, it will give an idea to them that money could be generated through gambling, who knows if many could be misled.

The negative effects of gambling is greater than then positive effects, so it should be avoided in things relating to charity.

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I honestly thought it was cool when I first heard of it -- funny because it was from a tv show lol. I mean people having fun while helping the unfortunates or any good cause is good.

I don't think promoting gambling is necessarily a bad thing provided it is controlled -- and might as well promote responsible gambling while at it. I doubt everyone will suddenly become addicted after joining some rounds either. I do understand that there is a big stigma around it, though so this will always get mixed opinions from the average folks.

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Quote from: Text on November 15, 2024, 06:21:21 PM

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) runs lotteries and sweepstakes specifically to raise funds for health programs, medical assistance, and other charitable projects. It’s the most prominent example of charity gambling here in the country. A portion of the ticket sales is allocated to social services, making it a key player in funding public welfare initiatives.

Pros: It’s an effective way to raise substantial funds for public services, especially here in the country with limited resources. For example, PCSO has helped countless individuals through its medical assistance programs.
Cons: Critics argue that gambling disproportionately affects the poor, who might spend beyond their means in the hope of winning. Additionally, there are concerns about transparency and the potential for corruption in some programs.

Yes, in our charity we can say that this is the norm, specially during Christmas, some local barangay sponsored this kind of events. Even Churches will have this kind of "palaro" and then the money being raised will be put into good cause.

That's the irony there though, we all know that they don't like any form of gambling, but in this case, there is a exception, Grin

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As for the Cons you mentioned, usually it's very cheap to buy a let's say Bingo ticket and most of the time it's is given free, so that locals are encouraged to play and hope that they got lucky and win some.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

One example of this kind of charity gambling is the Dutch Postcode Lottery.

https://www.postcodelotterygroup.com/what-we-do/nationale-postcode-loterij/

I have not been involved in any gambling as such but what thi really does sound like to me is a mix up because these two are separate blends which we can almost not link or even attach to each other, gambling in its own is something totally different from charity and trying to bring things together isn't just sounding right to me it's better to give to charity at once than the whole conflicting projection which I really don't understand.

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Quote from: Text on November 15, 2024, 06:21:21 PM

Cons: Critics argue that gambling disproportionately affects the poor, who might spend beyond their means in the hope of winning. Additionally, there are concerns about transparency and the potential for corruption in some programs.

Both are true, but what’s more painful is that this was meant to generate funds for a good purpose. If it’s just getting corrupted by a few officials, that’s really disheartening. It’s frustrating how these people are everywhere - any government program, they’ll always find a way to take a cut of the budget. That’s why so many projects end up substandard, no matter the initiative.

On the bright side, complaints about gambling addiction don’t usually point to PCSO games. Most issues come from casino games. So, I think PCSO will stay since it’s only played once a day, which helps limit overindulgence.

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I never thought that a advance country like Netherlands are into this kind of charity gambling. And from what I read, it is mostly prevalent in 3rd world countries as they used this form of gambling to raise funds. But if it is for a good cause and not being abuse so I do not see any moral implications or people getting addicted to gambling because of charity gambling.

However, I think this is going to be a open ended debate, there could be some saying that this is bad because gambling is gambling and again, there is a moral implications. But on the other hand, raising money for a charity is good deed.

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The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) runs lotteries and sweepstakes specifically to raise funds for health programs, medical assistance, and other charitable projects. It’s the most prominent example of charity gambling here in the country. A portion of the ticket sales is allocated to social services, making it a key player in funding public welfare initiatives.

Pros: It’s an effective way to raise substantial funds for public services, especially here in the country with limited resources. For example, PCSO has helped countless individuals through its medical assistance programs.
Cons: Critics argue that gambling disproportionately affects the poor, who might spend beyond their means in the hope of winning. Additionally, there are concerns about transparency and the potential for corruption in some programs.

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It’s still a form of promoting gambling, even if the intention is good. It’s similar to the state-sponsored lottery in our country, where the goal is to help the poor, but not all the proceeds actually go to them. “Charity gambling” sounds nice, but if the funds are coming mostly from the poor, since most bettors in these games are from low-income groups...it feels like it could create more problems. Honestly, combining gambling and charity just doesn’t sit well with me. Just my two cents.

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Charity organizations have multiple means of raising money, but it's my first time of reading about their gambling motives. It's great, but when not moderated, the players could get harmed. And the mission will be incomplete if at the cost of helping the less privilege other people suffer compulsive gambling. Certainly, even the public who do not want to play would want to give it a shot because it's for charity. And many of the visitors are not grounded on gaming, which poses some risk.

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Quote from: Ever-young on November 15, 2024, 05:47:43 PM

It's not a common practice here; even if it exists, I have not witnessed any myself around my locals. Even if such exist, I won't treat them any different from other gambling event platforms managed by private individuals.

Even if its sole purpose is for charity funding, there's no guarantee that all the funds will be used for the said sole purpose, and there's also no guarantee that the game will be completely fair; it's just the same thing as most of the tax paid by casinos going to the government, the funds being used to help upgrade health care services in order to help those who need quality health service.

It is not common practice when it comes to gambling. But you can see usually in exhibition fights. Like Pacquiao with YT DK Yoo last Dec 2022. He had no personal gain on this match as the proceeds will go to homeless people and those families affected by Russian-Ukraine War. He's been doing some exhibition matches after his retirement and doing such activity for charity purposes.

Manny Pacquiao says exhibition match purely for ‘charity’

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

I have heard of this.

Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

It's a form of entertainment to raise funds and of course, it will promote gambling. Everyone who participates on it know that it's for a good cause so there's a thought in the minds that it's okay to lose since this is all good and for charity works. I think that reason works for someone who really likes to gamble when it is for this cause.

Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

I haven't but I have seen personally many of them before, as I have observed with a quick glance, they seem happy and having fun while being part of it.

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Quote from: Jating on November 15, 2024, 04:55:41 PM

Have you heard of Charity gambling?

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Charity gambling is a "form of incentivized giving" where a charity (or a group of charities), rather than a municipality or private casino, oversees gambling activities such as bingo, roulette, lottery, and slot machines and uses the proceeds to further its charitable aims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_gambling

What's your thoughts on this? Is it a creative way to raise funds for a good cause? Or will it simply promote gambling?

Others might say that it conflict with charitable values as it linked to gambling-related harm. Have you been in one of this charity gambling in your locals?

One example of this kind of charity gambling is the Dutch Postcode Lottery.

It very okay with me because many people need help. Also if it is the casino organizing it as one of their corporate social responsibilities, then it's fine with me. In this case from the link provided, it is offered by a charity. Does the Charity hire the slot machines from casino? I'd like to see the charity use proceeds from this to tackle gambling addiction, to also pay the bills of people undergoing therapy and last but not least, they can clear off the debts of people who gambled themselves into debt.

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It's not a common practice here; even if it exists, I have not witnessed any myself around my locals. Even if such exist, I won't treat them any different from other gambling event platforms managed by private individuals.

Even if its sole purpose is for charity funding, there's no guarantee that all the funds will be used for the said sole purpose, and there's also no guarantee that the game will be completely fair; it's just the same thing as most of the tax paid by casinos going to the government, the funds being used to help upgrade health care services in order to help those who need quality health service.

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Here in my country when the lotteries were still state owned, one of the lotteries was dedicated to giving profits to charitable donations.

It's kinda funny because even though the church considers gambling a mortal sin, the priests here would say "if you're going to do it anyway at least play that lottery.
And truly to this day some older folk consider it's still charitable. While in reality it's been privatized and now as much as possible of the profits are squeezed to the stockholders.

This is one of the reasons we should be in favor of licensed gambling being collectively managed. And I don't mean necessarily state owned because oftentimes states bow to corporate interests. If we could manage the activities and revenues of lotteries collectively then at least the money would have been going where it can have the largest impact and not only making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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