Topic: Does good side of gambling overcomes its negative side? - page 6. (Read 1374 times)

I can't imagine for those people who made gambling as source income, is there any gambler who can do it? and now he becomes rich?

Since the winning of gambling just will give you a little breath and after that you will eventually bankrupt .

Gambling is very suitable to be use as an entertainment, although you need to spend money to play it also it depend on yourself about an entertainment.

But in my experience, your points have pointed out that gambling is dangerous, think a thousand of time before you joined because when you are comfortable when you playing gambling, it means you have agreed with the bad things that will happen to you.

There are many activities that are very expensive, but if they do not harm health, nature and others, then no one calls them negative. If a person likes gambling and he adequately deals with it, then I do not see any harm in this. You must understand that in the entertainment sector, preferences are individual and people have the right to choose independently.

I think for me, gambling is like betting ins sweepstakes, wherein, you should play in a limited game for a day, and should not abuse yourself playing too much. Because that will surely lead to addiction. We all know that the chance of winning is lower than the chance of losing, that is why we should only play a small amount of game, but in a case of a prize that is quite high compared to usual winnings, the more we play, the more chance we could win. So, there's a clashing of ideas here, for me, I rather believe on playing a little amount of games in a game which is having huge prize on it. The reason is because, gambling games that provide huge percentage of winning have small prize pool. Meaning, I just want to purely test my luck in playing.

I am not really used in gambling, but based on what you have listed about the negatives and positives side of gambling, I don't think that good sides of gambling wont overcome its negative side because if you are going to weigh in the negatives and the positives for me it is heavier in the negative sides compared to positive. Gambling is not a sure win situation so I would not choose to stay on it even though it has a chance of being a successful person, I have read some articles about those successful gamblers, they became rich because of winning the game, but I don't believe on luck so I will not go for it.

If you get addicted on gambling then for sure it will destroy your life, it will make you unproductive in other useful things.

If it's for the rich person, you can't hold his hobby if he's into gambling.

It's easier to gamble when you're wealthier because you will not of any problem about money. You can gamble as much as you want but there's no unlimited resource even if you're too wealthy.

i think not , because no matter what happens even if you win, there is always be the negative side attach to it, still gambling  should not be a hobby even for a rich person, because once get hook it is hard to let go, at the same time loosing has the highest rate than loosing everyone should know that for winning once there is always 3 times on loosing side, to the percentage always higher at the negative one

Yes, that is what we must do in gambling. We must prevent by not becoming a gambler, although we admitted that we are playing gambling sometimes. We don't have to follow our passion for playing gambling for a long time because we don't have a chance to win. The positive side will not stay on our side if we don't have control over our minds.

But I think even if there is a positive side in gambling, that will not make us leave gambling because gambling is an engaging activity that can make people come and play.

Only few places that do restrict out gambling yet we know on how this businesses do give out benefits in terms of taxes on a certain country.We might see a few places but not really that much compared to those who fully allow or legalized it.Good side is to make yourself enjoy on playing and that the primary motive when we do play gambling but people do go into other side which is to make money mostly
where it do ends up on the negative side yet majority of them already wrecked up their lives instead.When playing, just make it sure that you arent compromising something.

What I read from post in this thread is mostly positive side overcome by the negative side which I don't deny that it isn't. It's always the negative side if it's about gambling and there's not much we can do about it. All we can do is to prevent by not becoming a gambler or not gamble in any casino at all.

I've already had managed my gambling routines as it has too many risks and negative side effects. The positive ones you've mentioned was just temporary, doesn't benefit you that much, and can be learned by other things alternative and not knowledge that are exclusive in gambling. Yes, gambling is good and somehow beneficial, but the biggest cons is it gambles your life as well, all for just a temporary satisfaction? It's too obvious and self explanatory.

In fact, gambling is really risky and will only bring you stress and depression if you try it. The probability of losing your money if your not lucky is very high compared to the probability of winning. Understand first and study how gambling works so that you have an idea what are the advantages and disadvantages that you will get in gambling. After that, decide whether gambling is good as a source of profit or instead invest for a business to have a stable source of income.



Ofcourse, if you don't win, you lose, as simple as that. The good sides that you're saying just for those lucky people or who are having strategies in playing skill-based gambling casinos. In skill-based gambling casino, you can reduce the probability of losing and  increase the probability of winning so it still depends if you are experienced and knowledgeable in playing some casino games so that you will not be outplayed by your opponents.


In controlling you money, you will just minimize the money that you've spent but still the money has been wasted if you try to gambling without any strategy. It means, the negative side is still greater no matter how great you are in managing you money as long as you lose some of it. Proper management of money starts when you know what will be the faith or destination of your money, if it will be used in more valuable and necessary things or you will just spend it for fun.

No good sides of gambling can overcome its negative sides, that is why the government is restricting and even punishing its people who are into gambling, gambling is recommended as a form of entertainment you cross the line and make it as a source of income then you are in danger of losing everything you have, gambling have so many traps that we must avoid.

I agree with that.  It is like justifying why you are into gambling. But in reality you can do all those positive things in a less risky way. Gambling should really be treated as a source of fun or entertainment but if you are already deep into this, that's when you start experiencing problems and issues, not only in terms of your financial capability but health and mental status as well. So I don't think the good side will ever outweigh the negative side of gambling if you will end up a gambling addict.

All the positive traits of gambling can be gained by other means. It is no reasonable to weigh the positive effect of gambling over it's negative effects because once you get addicted to it, nothing good comes out of gambling. Gambling is a source of entertainment, but if you view it as a means to earn it will lead to serious problems.

I don't see any of those negative points as valid.

All of them are speculations that it may do this or it may do that. Driving a car may lead to you killing a child or it may lead to you killing yourself. It's stupid to use such speculations as negative arguments.

Something as simple as drinking water can make you choke and die. Is the possibility of choking a negative effect of drinking water?

I believe you have drawn good lessons down here for us all. But the negative part of gambling is basically addiction.
Once you get addicted to gambling, you focus 110% on it which leads to non productivity in other aspects.
Leads to loss of money, and borrowing too.

Thats why we must ensure to continue to gamble responsibly.

Gambling isn't supposed to be a source of income at all, some people just look at it at wrong way. Gambling should be fun and some additional money source but definetely not something that you should regulary count on.
As long as you can keep that balance you can also be on.a positive side and you will not feel the negative consequences.
Once you cross the border and gambling comes into the circle of losses and additiction that runs your life, you are lost.

Some may overcome the negative side of gambling but I believe that it is mostly the good side that are overcome with the negative side. I know that there are lots of gambling addicts so it just shows that it is true. Some gamblers even cause trouble and most things that happen that when the person involved is a gambler then most of it is negative. Even knowing of the negative side people tend to gamble whatever reason they have.

It cannot be a good source of income because number of people losing bets will be lot better than the one who wins so only few can make money on rare occasions so don't make it as source of income which can make you go bankrupt sooner than you expected.

Based on the reasons, OP have provided, we can weigh it not in the quantity of reasons but its impact to the person. In that case, the negative side of gambling overcomes the good side as it causes destruction to a person. For example, it boosts our analytical skills and logical thinking, on the other hand, if we are to compare it with destroying relationships and family when we get addicted to it, the consequences is too heavy for the person's life to be impacted.

But let us not look onto this, as we have our own to decide what is the best action whenever we are gambling. We should always be disciplined and avoid being too addicted in playing as knowing the consequences are enough for us to make ourselves disciplined