Topic: Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere? - page 20. (Read 2109 times)

There is only one difference I think and that is of the profit and loss. Gambling is just about losing everything. Like you can understand this as a machine that takes input as money and produce output as wasted money. You can just expect a good output from gambling. Where on the contrary, trading is about earning money from little investments by use of skill and efforts put in the field.

This is common, whether it is gambling or something else the negative side of the respective service easily gets widespread while the winnings won't be revealed most likely. Same time people who have lost is much higher than that of the winners marking gambling to be something a threat.

Gambling can cause some serious problems in society when it takes hold of people. Some lose everything and more.
It all comes down to self control and unfortunately some don't have that ability to stop before it causes them serious harm. We all have a thirst for becoming richer with very little work.

Gambling is seen negatively because anyone knows at least one person that got his life torn apart because of his gambling addiction and that lost everything valuable to him ( family , job , social status , career , money .. ) because of gambling . It is also looked at as a sin in all the religions and whoever calls himself a religious person will be making bad noise about gambling a lot .. It's also a social taboo and people just can't admit their gambling in fear of what will people think about them ..
Yet everybody loves to follow big gamblers lives such as Dan Bilzerian and wish if they were like him .. I think world would be a better place  if people admit their deeds and stop being afraid of what the society will think about them such taboos (not only the gambling one , but abortion and many others .. ) .

Yeah, those who are always addicted to gambling are usually the ones who tend to think they can make the best from it and they can easily get rich overnight with it and that is the psychology a lot of them would keep having which would always make having a casino a profitable venture for the owners.

Unless you grab a hold of yourself immediately, gambling has a way of using the greed side of you to get a full control of you and once that happens; breaking away from that control is usually hard. Due to the dangerous consequences of gambling, it is always portrayed negatively almost everywhere. In my opinion, it is not wrong.

It's the people choice what ever they think you can't please everybody to choose one sided they already grown with their own feet however they already knew the risk they facing in gambling since gambling is the only way they can easily earn or lose money , Those people who really greed in  wealth are big chances of loosing fast of there money too think of it everytime they gamble what they get?  Nothing just wasting time and money There are still people who believed in earning some other currencies and hodl them so far so good everything goes to perfect just be patience..

Yeah! We have no right to say the owners that they are tricking people and doing bad with their customers because they are here for business and business can never ever be done purely. Also, the people who go to casinos are old and mature enough that they can understand what is happening with them and what is good or not but they still go for gambling which means they don’t care about casino’s activities.

This is really making sense. Just consider the trading in bitcoins, why people don’t call it bad or why it’s not being promoted negatively? Because this isn’t bad for anyone. People come here and earn money from their little investments and these bitcoins are providing best platform to them to live a happy life, so they are being promoted positively. While gambling is promoted so truly.

Most of those opposes gambling in this position are those losers,the truth is they use to play gambling but didn't succeed on winning thats why throwing bad impressions towards betting is what they do now

On the other hand maybe they are just trying to clean their names but the truth is addicting in betting is what they are..and some for sure are "Gods"advocate so we all know what will happen lol.

Wow you perfectly mentioned all of the baddest thing a gambling addict has,i hate to agree but its true that if we cant control ourselves from being hooked then were done.

I already mentioned several times in replies as well as in the main post that addiction to anything is not good. Be it alcohol, smoking, internet, porn, social media, smart phone, TV or gambling. If you spend 90% of your productive time in social media just by scrolling the newsfeed, it's not good. Similarly, if you are not able to manage your emotion while gambling, that is also not good. But it doesn't mean that, social media is bad or TV is bad. It's all OK up to a permissible limit. As an adult, it is your responsibility to decide your own limit. If you can't do that, it's your failure and certainly not the fault of social media. But you can't blame the social media industry because you couldn't control your emotion. Same goes for gambling industry as well.

I guess it's a normal social stigma, simply because you are most likely to lose money in gambling that you are in other things (like trading). People can see trading as a job, because they think those doing it understand a lot of mathematics and economy, etc, and that's the reason they are able to do what they do. Also it's a lot easier to go to a casino, than it is to become a trader. That is changing now, with more exchanges designed to serve the retail investor, but it's still harder than having access to gambling.

This means that we see a lot more people to lose money in gambling, than we see in trading, so people keep thinking that trading is great and gambling is a bad thing.

Let's not forget movies, and how they portrait gambling, perpetuating the stigma around this activity. Gambling is normally tied to playboys and gangsters, and trading to executives with big payrolls.

For me, gambling and trading are very similar, and both can be good and bad things, depending on how you use them in your life. The problem is that most people don't really like to think, and just believe what they are told to. This way they continue to see gambling as an addiction or something bad, and they see trading as something amazing that they which they could do but simply can't.

I don't think that this has connection with gambling. We as gamblers don't have identical habits, there are formal gamblers and this is a very normal behavior to take alcohols and cigarettes.
Also with these, I can't see the effect of gambling and why it was being portrayed negatively. But this can correct too due to the society's point of view.

Gambling is portrayed negatively by others is because gambling is very addictive that can lead to bankruptcy, increase usage of alcohol and cigarettes, increased rates of unemployment, and poor mental and physical health of a person. That is why if you want to gamble all you need is a self control while playing.

In my own personal opinion, the reason why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere is because gambling is not a good influence in every individual that it can lead to extreme addiction in gambling and you might get bankrupt from it. Gambling is just for entertainment or fun that you should not use gambling to earn money and you should also control yourself why playing for you not to get addicted.

Interestingly, there are medications to cure gambling addiction as well. There are certain medications that can benefit these individuals. Generally, the prescribed medications belong to the class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. But, you must take professional advice before taking these as the dose may differ depending on your current situation.

I also compare gambling with alcohol and drugs addictions. When you cannot leave anything easily it means that you are addicted of that thing. As I am smoker and I cannot leave smoking, it means that I am addicted of smoking. The same is wig gamblers. They are addicted of gambling and as it is a worst thing the society think gambling addictor bad people.

It is apparently the mindset that a lot of them normally have towards gambling that has made it that way. The negativity that generally surrounds gambling as far as I am concerned has been far more than the positiveness that surrounds it

That is because a lot of people always look for things in the wrong places, such as looking for profit in gambling when it is not an investment and purely a game of luck but it is just unfortunate they do not always get that before their time gets too late. If one or two gamblers are doing like that then there will be no problem but all the gamblers are doing like that which is must be the fate of entire gambling field.

I agree that it is not the best way to seek money or profit from but sometimes we come to the point in life where we have no place to turn in order to make money and then we often resort to gambling. I will advice against going for it even though you have no pressing needs than those who have the need to test their luck in order to fix a something in their lives.

Gambling is prohibited or considered negative in almost any country or anywhere because it is very risky .. because it will create an addiction without control and will cause danger and harm yourself .. many negative impact if you gamble and you will lose money or everything, Avoid and stay away if you do not want to be poor..

The majority of people including me think that gambling is a worst thing and all the people should avoid themselves from gambling. When something is not welcomed how is it possible that it would be better for people. I think gambling and gamblers both are bad and they both are portrayed negatively in the society almost everywhere in the world.