Topic: Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere? - page 16. (Read 2109 times)

Thanks for your excellent reply! Even you have mentioned that nothing is wrong with gambling if you are playing responsibly. But that entirely depends on an individual. Let me give you one scenario and ask you what would you do in that scenario.

The scenario:
Assume you don't have any bitcoin in your cold storage and suddenly win 23 bitcoins ($8700/btc) as a jackpot from a gambling website. What would you do with that money?

What I will do:
1. My mortgage value is close to 8 bitcoins. I will first pay off my mortgage and become debt free.
2. I still have 15 bitcoin with me. I will deposit that money into a bank in "Monthly income scheme" plan which will earn me a monthly income of 70k in my local currency. This income is more than enough for a married couple with a child in my country. I will be able to save from this earning.

So if you see that, I will try to secure the rest of my life with that winning. It is because I understand my responsibility and I am not a high risk taker. But there are a class of people who don't know where to stop exactly. That's when the problem starts which earned gambling a bad name. Addiction in any form is not good and we all should know when and where to stop. But do we really need to blame entire gambling industry for our own mistakes? I don't think so!

Not only in some aspects but it is legal from every aspect that you can see because this activity ruins the life of people associated with it. Waste of time and money both because the person not only losses the game but also wastes all of his time in which he was present there because he finds nothing and returns empty handed. Also, he gets regrets on his side and financial crisis also take place.

Most gamblers also forget the time when they are lulled with gambling. Their time is spent on gambling and other jobs are forgotten. Frankly, there are many negative things caused by gambling if we can't control it.

It is portrayed negatively because plenty of people lives got destroyed for being an gambling addict. And instead of doing it for entertainment others make it as a source of income which is very impossible, it makes other people greedy that leads them doing bad things just to get money to sustain their gambling addiction.

This is a good observation. As long as a person is making good profit from gambling, he will speak good about it. But if he starts making loss, he will start criticizing the practice and gambling related websites.

This applies everywhere even with bitcoin investment. People who made good money  with crypto praised it among friends. When prices crashed from $20000 to half, they started calling it a bubble.

Gambling is portrayed negatively as a disincentive. It's disadvantageous for family members to give their money to casinos, or for religious authorities to have their fanbase learn about probability. I think on a biochemical level and in terms of prayer-effectiveness, casinos offer the same spirituality as religions. This makes them a financial competitor to be shunned.

Low-stakes gambling is a gateway to high-stakes gambling, and high-stakes gambling is irresponsible when you have children depending on you financially.

Gambling is also inherently discriminatory in that stupid people will get duped. We instinctively seek a better quality of life but stupid people have trouble weighing the risks. Gambling punishes you for stupidity or religious faith, yet intelligence and spirituality are often a part of our self-identity, which means it is more comforting to demonize the house rather than accepting your own mistakes after a losing streak at negative EV. Humans are extremely arrogant so when we mess-up we seek to place the blame on others. So people blame the casino for their own choices.

I don't you guys are getting the point here, most of the people are saying that gambling is a negative way of earning money is because the majority of the players who plays in gambling is losing most of the time, they wouldn't say negative about gambling if they are winning. Also, you couldn't say that you are having fun and entertainment if you are losing your money, again only those people who are winning on gambling would say positive things about gambling.

Yep, gambling basically created for fun but since people started to play for the purpose of making money then that is the time when gambling declared as illegal in some places. it's not bad to play with it but you must know your limit because gambling can break your life for good. Gambling negatively portrayed because of gamblers, if people continues to play with a bad intention gambling will stay negative in some places.

So this is a kind of "I played with matches and burned myself, matches are bad" kind of logic. It's sad that there's so many retarded people in the world.
I don't agree that almost everyone is negative about gambling. It depends on the type of society you're in. Asians are usually pretty open and accept gambling as part of normal routine, same as many Westerners., but if you go to a Muslim country their view will be much different and almost always negative. So, depends on the area.

I think one of the reasons why gambling is portrayed negatively be people is that most people lost their money in gambling. Its simple as "They lose in gambling" that is why they are portraying gambling as a negative thing.

For me, gambling is more likely a quick- rich scheme. You are gambling because you want to earn some money for a short amount of time which is not good. Gambling is very addicting. I don't gamble because I don't want to lose my money into it. If you are being addicted to gambling and you can't stop yourself from gambling, the outcomes will always be negative.

Definitely right mate. Many have understood the existence of gambling when the real purpose of it is to give pleasures and entertainment to people. But because gambling gives us quick money that is why people tend to gamble to gain more without thinking that there is no way to always win in gambling and most of the time gamblers losses. And because they tend to bring back what they’ve lose, it ended up with more losses.

There is always be nothing wrong about gambling. Problem do always come to whoever gets addicted to any kind of game or services. Remember that too much of everything will always be not healthy.

Because it is really the soul purpose of gambling it is a form of entertainment that should be taken moderately.

You have to understand as well that it comes with another type of gambling. What people usually discourages is the type of gambling that you play. For me people usually misinterpret gambling that are on gambling house and taking a risk or to gamble in trading


I am totally not into gambling that can be seen in gambling house because basically this are just for entertainment (tho there were really some who are making money out of it)

If you make a survey among the list of gamblers, you'll find almost 90% of them have list while the 10% have won the lost amount of the rest. This makes people portray gambling in the negative manner and the next this is the addiction. If one has entered into gambling activities, soon he won't come out even when he's experiencing continued loss which is completely due to the addiction.

It is simple math. Odds are always against player, you will most likely lose money but everyone is hopping for big win - which isn't impossible but it is rare.
They are based on lots of studies. Research some.
Nothing at all as long as you are responsible.
Yes, but you don't see people buying lottery tickets for all money they have. There is huge difference between lottery and gambling at casinos. You mentioned alcohol - one glass of beer every day won't harm you but several bottles will.
Apples and oranges.

Gamblers are portrayed negative because most of them are scammers though not all. That is the sad truth.

What aspects you are referring to? Will you please elaborate? Don't just go away by saying "illegal in some aspects", instead let us know those aspects. There are many countries in the world where gambling is legal. What you are talking is the general conception of many in this world because they have never tried it. If you are referring to addiction, then it is not good to have addiction in anything in life. Gambling alone can't be blamed for that. Please elaborate your aspects here.

Gambling portrayed negatively because it is illegal in some aspects.If we heard the word gambling the thing that comes in our mind is waste of money.No more time for family bacause of addiction to gamble.For me I can't blame those perceptions that people are thinking about gambling.

Basically, gambling has never a good end that’s why it is portrayed negatively in almost every part of the world. No doubt the ratio of winning games in gambling are very much less than losing because the people become nervous when they are playing with experienced ones and due to this nervousness, they lose concentration and make a move which leads them to a loss.

The same mind that some gamblers find very hard to control and let their emotions get returned by their gambling habit until they eventually get addicted. The problem is the level at which people get addicted and then irresponsibly make people around them suffer for their stupid actions.

We really cannot blame gambling itself even though if we really want to face fact, it has brought more harm than good over the years, but I really blame those who just cannot keep their head and mind in one piece and let the impulse from gambling out rule their emotions until they finally become a gambling puppet.

Anything that harms human beings in anyway does not deserve to be supported or cherished. Gambling has ruined lives of people not only financially but mentally and emotionally too. So what is the big idea behind not calling it an evil and lame activity? I have even heard cases in which gamblers ended up committing suicide. All due to this game. It is dangerous for not only the player but his close ones too.