Topic: Gambling is Neither Good or Bad - page 4. (Read 814 times)

Many gamblers may unwittingly find themselves in a bad situation. The gambler must know his limits. Otherwise, it can go beyond entertainment and cause great harm. And he should know that there is a risk at every stage and that if he cannot control himself, the damage will become even greater. The best option is to know how to have fun and to gamble only for pleasure.

Why will you say gambling is bad? If you are addicted to gambling, then gambling is definitely bad but if you gamble responsibly then I don't see anything wrong in gambling. Whenever you are gambling always know when to stop, you shouldn't take gambling as a source of income, if you take gambling as source of income, then you will definitely end up being addicted to it and it will be bad to you, because you might even end up selling your properties just because you want to gamble, after selling it and you lose then you will start regretting.

I like what you have to say. which means, gamble for fun without aiming for high wins and just do activities for fun after a busy work routine. do gambling sessions, just to spend the remaining free time while making our minds more relaxed.
however, unnoticed. most of the gamblers, always expect to make money without understanding what it is doing. although consciously, that most of us know the risks of gambling. Unfortunately, the strong urge to get high wins from every gambling session makes many of us forget that initially we were just playing for fun. that in the end, when emotions overwhelm our minds, most of us are more motivated to chase losses which end up suffering bigger losses.

I think in this case not only in gambling but in business, hobbies, work in the context you are talking about, everything can have a bad impact if we do it excessively or beyond reasonable limits because that will make people lose in the gambling they do. This really depends on everyone's perspective from where we see the side of gambling that will give a good conclusion, not good or bad. There is always a reason why something is good or bad so there may be some people who agree with you and people who disagree with you. In my opinion gambling will have a bad impact if you do not have mental and mind control because it is the easiest thing to influence when your do it.

Right it's not good nor bad according to me also and we all have our explanations about the same.Like for me it's not good as we are utilising our funds without any hope of getting them back or anything in return and it's not bad if we are not becoming addicted towards it as we are treating it for entertainment purposes only as game.So we all have our points but yes it's not good nor bad at the last.

William Shakespeare must have lost his goddamn mind for saying that there is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.

We have SIN for a reason, the human mind have a conscience for the same reason too, if I am born of a serial killer there is a chance that I have the same killing hunger inside of me, I don't have to think or feel, so killing people to me is just normal as far as I don't think it's bad, this is disgusting of him to say that.

Every approach through which you come through will serve you right as you have intended with gambling, not only applicable to gambling alone but every other things we are committed to doing, but the fact here is that some people deceives themselves by being untrue to themselves, how will you gamble without having a good understanding of what you gambles on, gambling is to serve you right once you have the qualifications that warrant it, we must enjoy gambling and never be careless about things that may deprived us from enjoying gambling, both in having run and making money.

It is exception but it does exists unfortunately. I have a friend whose father is a rich politician, and to be fair I kind of not feel sorry for him too much because it is corruption that got him that much houses, but he lost 11 houses over course of 5-6 years when he went to gambling, and that is why I feel like it is still possible to lose that much. People who can't control themselves while gambling is the bread and butter of this industry.

If everyone was like us who could control themselves, and limit their budget, then it wouldn't really make any sense to run a casino since casinos wouldn't be making too much profit. But when there are these type of people who lose everything, they start to make some serious profit.

Fair point. But in my case I combine this 2 example of yours to define my self satisfaction in gambling. I’m always playing for fun and part of it is to win profit. I don’t hunt any jackpot or huge win out of my small bet but I’m also not betting just to have fun only and not expecting to win because a bit contradictory on why you gamble.

I play online games when I need to have some entertainment and gambling when I need a bit of profit and that’s what make me happy. But of course I don’t chase lose nor big win.

The main point is self-control. Too much of anything is bad and if kept in moderation it can be fun and entertaining too. Just like alcohol, if kept in moderate amounts, although I strongly advocate against it and drugs.

In any such habit forming activity money is being spent to "buy" the fun and once it crosses the limits of fun and becomes a chase one needs to stop but that is the most difficult time to stop, just like pulling out before the peak.

Hence gamblers who are getting addicted and cant keep their minds off gambling need to look back at their change in habits to start controlling them.

Those who are saying that gambling is bad are those who had a bad experience of losing in it which is actually normal and is part of gambling. We can't always put the blame on gambling because we are the ones who are making decisions and choices. If we fail and lose, then that is not gambling's fault. Our mindset has an impact on how we define gambling.

if you gamble for fun, gambling is an awesome way for spending time.
if you gamble for "earning money" without understanding what are you doing (and trying to hit the big jackpot...) well yes, this is a serious issues and it's a waste of time too.

It is entirely up to us on us how control. Usually when we say gambling is bad, it's because it can make us lose all our money and leave us broke, but when we get into the root cause of this, it's because of our own decision that we can't control ourselves. Though people really have someone or something to blame on, like if there were no gambling, they couldn't lose their money, but thinking of it, it's their own fault. Though i don't treat gambling as bad or good i just treat it as a form of entertainment.

People could only describe gambling based on how they see it or the way it affected their lives. Gambling itself isn't bad but abusing it because of irresponsible gambling could ruin a person's life.
Gambling isn't to be blamed but the person who is dealing with it. It could be good for those who see it as a source of entertainment but are still able to handle the risks appropriately. Our perception of gambling will be based on how we handle its risks.

I agree on that statement, it only matters on what you think and what other thinks of it. Gambling is either good or bad but for casinos to entice people to gamble e.g. (ads, promotions etc.), was that a bad thing or a good one? It may the individuals action but we can't deny the fact that some or most gambling entities are using tactics just to promote their product/s.

I fully agree with you, gambling is neutral as nobody forces us to visit a casino and place bets with our personal money. Every person can decide for themselves if we wants to take the risk of losing money to get the chance of winning money. Someone who made a lot of money with gambling will say it's good, and someone who lost will say its bad. These are all personal experiences and don't hold true for the general population. All the people who lost money with gambling where hoping first to make a profit with it. And if they had won at the casino they would not publicly say that gambling is wrong. I can understand people who are against casinos and don't like gambling, but playing yourself and then talking bad about casinos after losing is wrong. The winning chances of all the casino games are publicly available.

Losing in gambling is a consequence that has been agreed upon by gamblers, as well as winning.
The risk is to lose money, but the impact tends to be worse when the gambler is no longer able to control himself and his finances in gambling.

Perhaps the effects of gambling have been discussed many times before and gamblers are basically aware of it, so why do they continue to gamble? Some of the other reasons I can think of are not all gamblers expect to big win, while they also expect fun and entertainment and spend little free time even though they lose so much money.

The problems that occur in gambling are bad or good, if we say bad things to gambling addicts, they will answer nonsense, they don't want to hear about the bad things that happen in the gambling arena, that's the world of gambling has the highest sense of suggestion and hypnosis, compared to other behaviors.

I am quite sure and aware that 90% of the people here who are involved in gambling, consciously know the bad things about gambling, the risks and benefits that occur in gambling, however.
Questions arise:
If so why do they already know gambling can be bad things to lose, but still want to bet.....!

Well, that's selfish humans, lust, all of us want to find shortcuts to get rich quick, even though they know the risk of losing, I judge if that person can control gambling, no, on the contrary it is gambling that controls the person, that is the real person who wins in gambling.

Gambling is bad for the person when they lost money on it. Gambling is bad for the person if they have changed from a good person to a bad person. Gambling is bad for those people who lost their savings because of it. Gambling is bad for those people who made bad decisions while doing it.

Gambling is good for those who enjoyed playing the game and doesn't think about the winnings. Gambling is good for those people who sees gambling as a stress-reliever and not a way to earn more money. Gambling is good for those people who are entertained whenever they are doing it.

I just like the word that you used OP which is "perception". It really is the reason why gambling for others look so bad and for some, it look so good. I think I can connect gambling with Bitcoin. There are some people who sees Bitcoin as a scam because they got scammed by some scammers out there. I mean Bitcoin is just a currency and we can consider it as a neutral thing, same with gambling.

They blaming gambling because they have made bad decisions.

Well, it's the nature of a person to blame something if there is something wrong happened to them. I'm not saying that all of us are doing it every time, but there is a time on our lives when we blamed something because of our wrongdoings. It's the decisions of these addicted gamblers that made them lose their money, and not gambling itself.

It has been discussed repeatedly that people who say gambling is bad are those who only vent their emotions for a moment due to various factors, such as losing or getting stuck in debt because of gambling, this is why before playing gambling, everyone is expected to have good thoughts and mentality. stable so that every gambling game that occurs is not based on greed to win.


if your goal is to gamble for profit it's not to blame but most gamblers who have that desire only end in losses, enjoy every game in gambling that you do, and stop when you win big or run out of capital, don't continue with borrowing money or selling assets, so you stay safe.