Topic: Is it ethical to break your gambling rules - page 8. (Read 1152 times)

I say, yes you are gambling too much.
How can I say that? I've been in the same position before and thankfully I get to think of where I am before it gets deep.

Almost the same as you is what happened to me. Going back and forth and it happened for two weeks. I was thinking to myself if I am already an addict.
So I stopped. My monthly bonus was high thanks to that, I think I was wagering for like $2k per day although for some it's a low amount only. But that is because I am also not betting too high.
When I saw that I was 20% down and it seemed like gambling was still whispering to me to play the next day, that's when I stopped. How? I simply withdraw a big chunk of my funds so that what is left is only the budget for sports gambling. For me, that's not an addictive game, it's just something to spice the game up while I am watching and also to be updated with all the games for the day.
If you asking yourself these questions then I think you are still good. You might want to stop for a while and think about things especially your consecutive gambling and the losses. Have a rest, it's free.

Obviously you are breaking your rules, and this is a taboo in gambling and investing. It will create bad habits for you, and it is not sure that after weeks of breaking the rules, you will be able to return to compliance easily. Even though you haven't had any major damage to your finances yet, and the loss is still within your expectations, but there will come a time when more serious consequences will come if you continue to break the original principles.
Besides, complying with the new principles can help you calculate how much profit and loss your gambling brings, so that you can adjust accordingly. In my opinion, gambling a lot is sometimes not more profitable than choosing a good time to bet.

Those are your own rules that you implemented to protect yourself, so you are the one that should judge your own actions and then take steps to remedy it.

I think you should rather look at your balance to see when it is time to stop. Just make sure that you spend enough time with your family and friends and have a balanced life, then you will be fine. 

Even if the money spent isn't that high, as long as the time spent is more than you plan or anticipated to spend, it could be harmful to the gambler. It could result to someone missing out on other activities and opportunities, like spending time with loved ones or working on their career. Gambling addiction is more about how it affects a person's life that how much they spend or what they feel when they're gambling. So addiction isn't really always about the money lost while gambling or even the emotions, but mostly about the impact of the addiction on the person's life as well as those around him.

Luckily you're able to earn little profit, but what if you broke your gambling rules and you lose more than what you can afford to lose? you will regret and might try to recover your losses. You need to be careful with anything you do, don't become an addict on something that could ruin your life.

If you're an addict in learning or your business, that's a good addiction.

Whether it's ethical or not is probably dependent on the effects it has on you mentally. If you don't feel very bad doing it because you didn't lose a lot of money by doing it, it shouldn't be a problem. However, if you feel bad deep inside for deceiving yourself and not following your set limits, then it isn't good.

Generally, limits in gambling are set so that you practice responsible gambling and don't spend more money and time than you can afford, and if you are not having such a problem even if you are crossing or breaking your limits, it shouldn't be a problem, but if you are not respecting the limits that you have set and then lose all your money or waste a lot of your time, then you might need to feel bad for not following the limits.

I find the question a bit of a joke to be honest because it is unethical or unethical to break rules that you yourself impose on your behavior. It is better that you don't do it, of course, because if you have imposed rules on yourself you have done it when you think rationally, and if you skip them it is because your emotional part has taken over you.


That's my point. I do have rules that I usually abide by, although I'm not your typical casino game player. If you play occasionally and responsibly, it's reasonable that you don't impose rules on yourself.

I thought that you are breaking casino rule, but it turns out, it is your own rule. To be honest with you, I don't have any rule to begin with, it boils down as to how you are going to manage your bankroll in relation to your loss. If you are losing money, then it's obvious you have to stop for a while and see how it goes for you.

If you feel like you can gamble again, then by all means go for it. I know that we might have to set up certain rules, but this is gambling. Everything is based on your emotions, so there's no like one size fits all strategy, it's very different for every individual.

In fact, gambling is an activity that can only be determined by the gamblers themselves whether it is time for them to start or stop, of course every gambler will have time and money management.
Some gamblers have kind of rule that they will gamble when they really have enough money to meet their living needs and this money can be allocated for gambling and can be received when it is lost.
But basically the most difficult thing is being able to set limits to determine when to stop, most gamblers are not aware of the pleasure of gambling so they often do it excessively.

In context like this you are very lucky to gamble for more than two weeks in row but still walk away with small amount of profit, this means no disappointing losses.
But if you are worried about the impact that will occur in the future if you continue to become an addict or experience major losses, then there must be limit to the time spent, at least you must always be aware of this limit.
Even though you are gambling with your own money, this is not just about money or time, but rather about the negative impacts and consequences that you will have to face in the future.
Don't let this happen and make you have to experience more complicated problems.

Yes, of course this is not good because the aim of limiting these activities is so that we protect ourselves and also the money we have so that we don't use more for gambling and we violate the rules that we have made. Of course this is very unreasonable if we break them. Yes, it would be better for us to stop for a moment if we have been gambling for too long so that we don't make mistakes in gambling that cause us to experience big losses from gambling.

Yes, you could really definitely be able to answer this question alone since this is really something that pertains about self control and discipline on which each person does have on different levels.
If you've seen to yourself that you arent that spending up huge with it or something that do talks that you are still on positive side plus having that kind of entertainment and enjoyment, then why you would really be deciding to stop?  It would really be just that depending on you since not all would really be ended up on having on the same decisions in life basing up on what they are dealing with.
Also, its your money then who the heck would really be telling you on how you should gonna spend up your money.

We do know that each person does have that different approach when it comes to entertainment on which there are ones who do love  to gamble and there are ones who do love to deal up with
physical activities and there are ones who doesnt really like on making any movement at all. Yes, we do set our own rules in life on which it isnt really that limited to gambling but also in other aspects
in life as well on which we know that we do stick on something we do prefer. It is really just that there are people cant be able to see on whats the importance of other things.

It is yourself alone who can answer this question. What do you think? Does it feel that it is already beyond your limits? If it does then perhaps it is indeed going above what you really want. So then you can decide to stick to your old structure. But if it feels like it is perfectly all right and you are not suffering from it in any way, then perhaps it is not really a problem.

I think this is not really a question of ethics. It is completely up to you. Everything is under your control. You are not hurting other people in the process. You are not behaving in a way that affects your community or tradition either.

the question "So this led me to ask the general public if I am gambling too much, although this excess didn't affect my finances in any way since I still managed to come out with little winning at the end of the day and at some level, my losses are still below 30 percent of my set out money."

Is it ethical to break your gambling rules? it is your rules so in my opinion that is totally fine and from your statement you still win and didn't affect your finance so I would go ahead but Im not going to do it like everytime or you need to setup a new rule

Yes, as long you do have the control then it would really be just that fine since you are the ones who do set out those rules then high chances that those things are meant to be broken.
We do know that active dealing up with gambling could really lead into possible addiction once you do lost off control but since OP did have that kind of control when it comes to finances and he's
been aware on the actions that he's been doing then it does really shows that he had a good grasps towards his gambling activity on which this is something that recommended.

There are really just those people who are really that go lost of track on the time that you would really be dealing up with gambling due to that impulsive approach.
This is why it would really be always best that you should really know on what you should gonna do so that gambling wont wreck you up.

With how your situation sounded, i'd say you're doing fine despite breaking the rule. It's still far from being excessive because you could have the same amount of sessions while gambling throughout the three weeks.

For the question, it's unethical because you set those rules to help yourself become a good and responsible gambler.

I agree with the others that it's a warning sign, so it's always best to track your activity, and if it happens again, then it's time to take action or have another rule that prevents you from going over the limit.

One of the things you must not do is to alter whatever resolve you have reached as a result of indulging in campaign. If for any reason you want to break your rules, it should be for a very strong reason and the reason must be what can not be alternated.

If for any reason which can be alternated, you break your gambling rules then you have to be ready for what consequences that comes with it

Op, I think is better not to set a rule that you can't keep to, I believe you know that gambling is addictive I feel that may be why you gamble in those weeks without limiting or even remembering your set rules is because of the little winnings you were having during that period, in gambling when you are having a little fortune, you tends to go for more, may that's what happened in this your case or you are being conversant with those selected set of sports, but I have state it categorical for us to keep the record straight, when you start noticing continues gambling habit as this your case is, you should be careful and give a break, don't be too comfortable to say that is not affecting your finances, that's how many people became addicts, I think at this point you should watch yourself closely and be in control if your actions in gambling. 

Of course it's unethical if you break the personal rules that you made, still follow the personal rules that you made, and try to rest for a while, don't get carried away with gambling, think of gambling as entertainment, not a necessity.

Rules set by a person can be broken depends on the circumstances of the situation on ground, if it will be favorable or not. Based on your own, you can choose to break your own rules due to lack of discipline and sel control over your gambling activities. The reason why some of us have rules on our gambling life, is to help live as a healthy gambler, and not as an addict.

OP, going beyond your two weeks limit in gambling is a sign that you are getting close to addiction, which you might not even know that you have been addicted to gambling, because you have begin to give excuses for not sticking to your gambling rules, by saying that you do win, and you only use 30% of your budget. The worse thing is that a gambler is an addict, and he does not know that he is an addict because he hasn't started living a weird life.

It is good that we stick to the rules that we have set aside for our gambling activities, only if we want to change the rules, by giving it more limit to the previous, but if you want to gamble above your gambling rules, then it is good that we caution ourselves, and go back to keep to the rules for one to gamble responsible.

to me, since you set rules for yourself and you didn't follow them, it's like you said that all rules are ignored in other things. Is that why you set rules for yourself to prevent you from reaching the point where you become addicted to gambling? If yes, there is a big chance that you will become a gambling addict because of the mere fact that you don't follow your own rules, what more if you experience winning a large amount of money? maybe you'll break the rules you made even more, or worse, you'll have no one to listen to.