Topic: I think gambling is inbuilt, kids don't learn it anywhere, they do it! - page 12. (Read 1623 times)

As humans, we like to commended or preferably rewarded occasionally for being correct with a guess or prediction and it is on this attributes that gambling platforms have leveraged on to make a business that will serve as a form of entertainment and also give the players a chance to be rewarded for the right bets.

I agree that gambling is inbuilt @OP.

Gambling itself is not bad, it is the addiction that is bad. People are mostly advised about it because it is loose control to and easy to get addicted to.

From your topic title alone I find fault in it and I don't agree. Allow me to state categorically that there is nothing that is inbuilt in any human we all learnt it through rewards and punishments. Why underaged kids gamble these days more often than before is because of how liberal our society has become with casinos. Kids are no longer cautioned or prevented from it and their are pressures from all over for them to engage in it or be left out. They choose the former because it makes them look cool. Gambling is not inbuilt. It is never in our DNA . It was learned.

Hereditary? No. Traditional, I might agree.

There are still kids whose fathers and grandfathers are gambling and yet they won't make a stake like that even if another kid will challenge him. They don't like risk, they don't want to put their money on the line so they won't agree with those kinds of provocation.
Advertisements do work in boosting one business and I think the Australian government's aim is just to minimize the number of kids that are being exposed to gambling by means of those advertisements either in the popular streaming services or Android and iPhone applications. Sure, it looks like it doesn't work but it's too early to say that, it's a process, and they cannot just obliterate a habit that had been traditionally exposed in the environment in one decree.
I think it will work, it just needs patience and time. They just want a better place for their future and it's good that they are doing it by steps and not forcing their way which could cause chaos.

I remember when I was still a kid and when and my friends any sport that we played, there was always that challenge to each other about betting. Yeah, pennies and small amounts only or even some toys on the stake. You're right that the kids have been doing that ever since without our knowledge because even us, we've done it in the past. Still, parental guidance is needed for these kids to let them understand the dangers of gambling when they're not yet grown up and they've become used to it. That should be the goal of every parents, and to let them know that when they used to it, that becomes an addiction and when it becomes an addiction, that's hard to control and they might do things that will make them ruin themselves for like when they get refused by their parents when they ask money, it might result to them having tantrums.

If you say that something cannot be avoided because it is considered innate and hereditary, this invalidates majority of the people who have a negative background in their lives who changed for the better. In addition, this also invalidates the efforts of the people who changed their lives as you are stating that a person cannot change because it is within their bloodline- like that is their future.

Even iff a person came from a family background of gamblers, the former still has the discretion and option whether to continue it or not. In addition, the efforts of the Australian government to abolish gambling ads is welcomed- any kind of support and help to reduce gambling activities from minors is a welcomed and appreciated.

They still have to watch someone to know where will they do it. The urge to gamble is always there for everyone, they just need a little push in order to do it on their own. Without watching anyone, I think the youth, or everyone in general, will have a hard time figuring things out on themselves. They don't have the innate knowledge on how or where to gamble, but they sure know that gambling nets them with something if they win.

To some gambling might be inbuilt but to me it’s not it took me time to learn how to make predictions of games and understand the code and how they are being put into use some people might have just know them without learning but to me I have to learn them by asking question and doing some research.

It’s only some games which don’t requires one to have skill before they can partake on it that I believe they really don’t need learning it as anyone who have little knowledge about childhood play can play them games like dice rolling slot and sometimes those random number generator games they don’t need to be learned.

But for one to be a full gambler their are some games you just don’t know about them like that you need to learn them in other for you to start playing and increasing your chance of winning in that game.

The pattern of gambling as giving here by op is a normal life style that you can equally find it with people that don't have a clue about what in-land or online gambling is all about, it's just a way of trying to back up your claims in an argument and if this is what gambling about then we won't be having the reckless increase of gambling addicts on the street of Vegas and other places in the world. Real gambling is beyond that, and it's true that it's innate in humans to quickly want to attach money to arguments because we know money value.

On the other hand, government have been up and doing to an appreciable length in reducing the explosion of gambling with it's ads advertisement in almost in every online site you batch in, and this has been the reason why kids without difficulty get to know about gambling. Even as an adult I some times get upset with the manner at which gambling are spread in every site I clicked distorting my attention to what I earlier had in mind and if you're not disciplined you can easily lose attention and deviate.

You are right to some extent just as you said and I quote that kids tends to learn more from what they see and hear and that is the basis because even if a child seeing their parents gambling but is not aware of what gambling is about you will see that even if they wish to do what there parents are doing they may not have that zeal but if they are being publicize then they might feel that for it being publicize that there may be some benefits attached to it thereby they might start developing time and interest to know how it works, so one way or the other, gambling ads also aid in developing the interest of the child since they are easily deceived and convinced by what they see and hear

I think a good risk taker is a good gambler for sure. No doubt about gambling inbuilt in kids because it is a masculine inclination to be competitive both for ego, for women, for rights.
 It is natural to want to prove how right one is to close people who doubt our ability. It is only more creative to have channeled such urge to be right to bet on football or games or outcomes of events, just to win and feel good about being right.
Think about it, what's the concept behind gambling if not that the right predictions win the rewards in total?

Forget about all you're saying, children tend to learn things faster than you could thought of, if you teach them they will know and probably understand even better than you the teacher, if you don't teach them, they will also discover such and it may only take them a little while, no one brings in something from heaven, we are all taught about everything we do here and nothing than through learning, it may now be through a conscious or unconscious means we acquire all we learnt about gambling and children are most faster in learning new things.

I don't think that gambling is hereditary, it's something that we learn from the society. I think  that what we're born with is argument, humans will go to any length to prove that their right and can even make a bet to proof the authenticity of their arguments. It's different from gambling that means to make bets with the aim of making monetary gains, whether for fun or as means of livelihood.

In my country today, you'll see a lot of lotto and sports betting shops, which was not so in the past. But due to the economic hardship in the country, the old and young  started to look for shortcuts to riches, and they see gambling as the route. Originally ninety percent of them wouldn't consider gambling as a hubby talk less of engaging in it as a source of income. So you wouldn't consider most of them as born gamblers, it's circumstances that drove them into it. Again the bet adverts that is very common on TV and social media, giving the impression that gambling is an easy way to success, they're the factors that are responsible for making gambling inbuilt in our society today, not that it's in us from birth. My opinion.

Gambling can be all sort of different form that human actually practice without them noticing it, because the urge to always win is something that is natural among the human race but although I agree that environment hold a very big factor to the influence of a child but the fact still remains that although they are not exposed to such act they still involved in competitious act that is  built-in them .

I agree with @OP that betting and gambling is already inculcated in human DNA.  If it is not then gambling will not exist.  Aside from that through observation, these kids can mimic the adults when they hear some bet being done among their relatives.  I am sure the adults surrounding those kids are often seen betting on the issues seen in the media, so it won't be surprising these kids will do the same.

Tycoons and rich people are smart people who mitigate risk in order to achieve their goal, I do not think they are gamblers but rather risk takers who know how to minimize the risk to zero.

Parents are role models for their children. Children usually find it easier to understand or follow what their parents do when the children are still minors. But on the other hand, their emotional maturity is certainly not good, they even tend to be unstable. In this case, it cannot be denied that when children see their parents gambling even in front of their eyes, of course the child will also be curious about what their parents are doing. Even interested in trying. Moreover, there are many children who really like to follow what their parents do, so if this gambling happens or even often in front of them or they know we are gambling then they will join in. So, in this case, the role of parents is very big in preventing or preventing their children from entering the world of gambling.

At least set an example in front of them that we don't gamble, even though we actually gamble, but try not to let them know about this. This can actually be a pretty big trigger.

On the other hand, apart from parents, there are other factors that make children interested in gambling, namely the advertisements that easily appear on the platforms they visit. Even on online gaming platforms, gambling advertisements often occur. So, if the government makes such a regulation, it might not be in vain. At least that could be one way to prevent children from being underage for gambling. It's not the only way but it could be said to be one way. So, this won't be in vain.

People are gambling by nature that's for sure. If that's not the case then we wouldn't have risk-takers and successful tycoons after all. The problem with kids gambling however, is that they are exposed to it at a much earlier age instead of when they are of legal recognition, when they're more responsible for their actions and thoughts.  Australian government taking a crackdown approach at stopping kids from being exposed to gambling at such a precarious age in their lives is a good thing as it makes sure that they don't get the wrong connotations and all that stuff. To say that their efforts are futile because every kid's a gambler in nature almost sounds like "we should not have laws anymore since humans are inherently evil anyway". Do you see the flawed logic behind that statement of yours?

Yes if gambling ads are banned and other gambling promotions which have been constantly put at our faces without regard to the risk this could pause for the weekend but then also the government in the part of the world needs to do a lot in the area and there should come up with gambling regulations for the country and how it operates and within what level they can operate.

Our TV stations have become a home for gambling adverts with a lot of celebrities now becoming casino ambassadors and also promoting them to their fans.

You see the streamer.

They promote these, and most streamers don't know that their audience is kids. Most of streamer is a former (gamers) while the audience sometimes a kids not everyone is adult.

Once, they watch a stream gambling with streamer they will tried. The flow is always like these, started to bet with item (potential CS-GO skin Gambling) and to real money soon.

I don't think gambling is inbuilt rather majority of underage kids who engage in gambling were majorly influenced by the kind of environment they grew up in. There are a lot of children who until they reach the age of 13+ never heard about gambling and that's because of the fact that they grew up in a wealthy environment and so activities around them never exposed them to gambling while their other counterparts from poor neighborhoods are always exposed to gambling at very tender age because it's a normal means of survival for most the adults around them. They grow up thinking that gambling is also a way of survival thereby getting involved in it without being specially taught about gambling.

We are in a modern technology where the kids can easily get information online and even if we discourage them to do gambling, time will come that they will do it as they can also learn this from their friends. Proper guidance is the key here and of course let’s just do our part to guide them. The government effort is good especially on banning the gambling ads, hopefully the social media platform will also take initiative to ban such kind of promotions, I believe they contribute a lot to the exposure of the kids to gambling.