Topic: What's the motive behind the anti gambling campaign (Read 1833 times)

The gambling industry will never be removed, it already existed in so many centuries and it's already part of our culture. Maybe some countries consider gambling as a sin, so they'll remove it by making it illegal for citizens to gamble, but the majority of the world would still allow gambling.

Good point, there are many people who thinks that way, instead of admitting that they are  suffering from this addiction they are trying to point their fingers to other people. They are complaining instead of trying to help themselves in resolving the problem, we can't deny that fact that there are people who will push this propaganda in order completely removed this business.

They wanted to completely stop the facilitation it will bring them more comfort not to see someone enjoying, either  greed inside  or they don't want to see others treating gambling as good source of entertainment.

Or maybe because people like to blame others for mistakes they or their relatives are responsible for. Instead of taking the responsability for the addiction, they prefer to say the gambling industry and the society are guilty for that. Furthermore, instead of trying to overcome this personal addiction in their lives, they pretend the solution to be anti-gambling propagandas to achieve a total ban of gambling activity in the world.
It makes me believe anti-gambling campaigns are vengeance tools used by people who don't know how to handle with gambling in a healthy way, so no one else can have some fun playing as well.

Gambling should be fun and not a stressful one because people do really forget the true essence of gambling which it should really be for enrertainment.

People are just way too wishful that they can make out big money with gambling without realizing that the house are the only ones who do make big money out of those people who became addicted to it.

When you do play then think out of those funds to be lost already and dont hope back for some increase or make it big because this kind of bad
wishful thinking will create bad motivation.

Unfortunately its always like that, people do not realize they are just statistics in a page and nothing more, they always think that "there is someone out to get me" in their minds, they always feel like they are being scammed while everyone else is doing fine, they are just that victim in their own movie, and they want to get it back fair and square by basically illegally harassing people without realizing it.

Unfortunately this is not even just about gambling, in many of the court cases of the world even the person who is charged usually plays the victim as a defense, not that "they didn't do it", that would be a good defense, no, they act as if they are the real victims and not the criminal as the defense. That is the key here, we have to realize people who lose something or do something wrong will always play the victim to get something.

Maybe that is because people can forget about how to handle gambling and once they forget, they will hard to realize that they are like playing gambling and in the end, they can become addicted to gambling. If that happens, that will be too late to stop gambling, although that will not be impossible, especially if they can try hard to stop gambling.

The chance to win in gambling will not too big than losing the money. Gamblers should know about that and not trying hard to winning the games. Playing gambling with fun and not think about winning is what they need to do.

Religions also plays a huge role for the reason why people think that gambling is negative, and against the good soul, blah blah. But those people starts believing the blind beliefs but forgot to see what is the actual reason why it was considered as not right in the name of religion but now everything changed, but still some people keep the old beliefs for their personal benefits but if we look their personal life they will never follow anything what has been told in their holy book.

We cannot remove the negative comment of other people because they might experience, hear, or see different people currently experiencing failure and success in gambling.

To those people who fail, it's sad on their part because some of them might be addicted already and losses, a lot of money, and their family, friends, or any acquaintances don't want to see them suffer anymore or the other future players.

To those who win a lot of money because they enjoy or jealous of those players who gain a lot in a single roll, we can not remove that it's part of the nature of the person.

Everywhere there's a negative comment and we admit this we cannot remove this belief.

But instead of being anti gambling why not make a information drive for how to handle gambling instead of telling them not to play because it is human nature that we love to do those things that is prohibited.
so not to ban gambling but to educate people instead.
and for me this is the best way to engage on this problems.

Simply says in this quote " Good or Bad Publicity will still brings publicity" so that's what they are expressing on this.

also people nowadays must be diligent and observant and don't just jump into conclusions about what the media is feeding us.

it's undeniable that gambling is a bad thing, but why do people continue to do it ?Maybe because it's just because of the fun factor, so they forget every penny they have spent on gambling, the fact that they lose money after visiting the casino, and that doesn't affect the enjoyment They are on satisfaction after gambling, gamblers will be quite content with small wins, and they will tolerate small losses so that they don't realize that in the long run, they are losing more than winning.
I agree with what you said, the real winners in a gambling are those who become the dealer of the game.

I agree to your statement, they all care about money, the more viewers and readers the better for the business,

You gave example that easy to understand, those journalist knows that if they'll bring bad publicity readers interest is more imply to

click it and visit the site, they are not really care to what are the after effects as if they care about those gambling addicted people,
nothing personal but they want to get attentions and money from those people who will read the articles.

I think in the vast majority of cases it's neither of that. Journalists seek attention for their articles, in the first place, and they'd figured out long ago that bad news sell better than good ones. This applies to predictions too: people would rather click on "20% of the world population will die of famine in 10 years" than on "20% of the world population will have much better conditions of living in 10 years". Danger is more clickable, it's as simple as that. "Nothing personal, just business."

Perhaps OP meant it relatively. Like making a comparison between the way gamblers and investors can loose in their fields subjectively and immediately paint it black. Especially when its got to do with trying of stocks for unexperienced investors. It always feels as though, the market is targeted on them. Other than this, then its very much to note that gambling and investing is mutually exclusive. They aren't the same or related in anyway. The tricks that works in investing and that of gambling are very much different. Gamblung is basically based on luck and a few experience but investing could be studied objectively and one could be acquinted with the tricks about it.

Because the thrill and excitement makes the gamblers stays in playing , remember how much adrenaline gambling activities gives us and that's what we tend to enjoy.

if gambling is boring then for sure there will be no addicted one till now.

Wow 4k? that's not bad to win in single game, I remember winning in one popular gambling here amounting 6k but sad to say i did not stop and in the end ? losses is what i got.
Gamble the amount that excess from your daily funds and not the amount that is for real life.

I partially agree with this statement. Have you noticed that there are so many people saying that we have lost that much amount in gambling but there are very few who say that we won in gambling. Is that the winning ratio is low in gambling or people just don't tell when they are winning. I can't believe that 90% of the gamblers only losing and yet the gambling users never get less.

Ease of gambling would be the biggest risk, in comparison to the compulsion to do anything.   You can get an Endorphins rush from exercising, its a healthy reaction most of the time but it is also possible to get addicted to a feeling and then exercise too much and amazingly its possible to die that way from pushing yourself too far.  That would be a rare way to end up in a bad way most of the time because most people get tired out exercising, it has a natural control to the activity that discourages the over use of that endorphin release.
   Gambling is possible to take very far very easily because the nature of our money lets people borrow, some parts of the world limit borrowing as its outlawed or you must travel far away to access the gambling but most of the world you can overspend and get into trouble easily, thats the main reason gambling is seen so negatively.    I think over eating is another very easy activity, our modern culture and productive society made food and calories cheap and convenient, now it can become an addiction.  All of these activities mentioned including gambling are fine if done on a set basis, thats my advise to most people come back another day dont expect to always win every session it is best to step away and give luck another try another day.

They do it to stop the other people to experience gambling addiction because they cannot control it anymore and they don't want others to experience it just as the others who didn't managed themselves.
Good for those who did tried it for the first time and they got the beginners and win some prizes and amount just like your girlfriend. But these governments are looking for the long term effect of it which they have concluded to only bring bad effects.

^ Probably OP means that in gambling, not all become to win there should be a loser. Trading and gambling are totally different but it seems like they are like a coin, two different faces but still, it is a coin and that is how gambling and trading are, they are both capable of managings financial your fund. On the other side, governments always protect their people from possible addiction that probably can't manage themselves. That is why gambling has different regulations depending on which country you are in. There will be always an anti-gambling.

Over the years, gambling has attached himself with a reputation that makes even gamblers look immoral in the sights of men. This is mostly due to the unregulated nature of the trade back  then, as most gambling where done without any clear supervision or wasn't conducted with fairness. Now, the government came into play and gambling became very legal and a taxable aspect of the society for which national and state revenue are generated for the benefit of a nation. Gambling is never a bad thing, its a willing full act reserved for the matured minds and financially capable. Hence, fighting a thing born out of freewill is just an abuse of the right to free expression. Gambling is here to stay but in accordance with the law.