Is gambling bad to the society?

[mirakal]

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 Secondly what are the social problem caused by gambling?
(1) Depression and suicide
(2) bankruptcy, family-break up
(3) domestic abuse
(4) assault, fraud
(5) theft, and even homeless
Addiction to gambling is link to a range of serious personal and social harm such as those things I mentioned. These effects can be devastating to the individual as well as their friends, family, workplaces and community.
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gambling is entertainment and this is the reason why quite a lot of developed countries have legalized gambling, but the negative effect that can result when gambling too often is addiction, so for those who cannot manage their emotions, gambling is a nightmare trap, but for those who really can manage their emotions and manage their money well, gambling is the best entertainment that can really relieve fatigue, especially when you get the jackpot, so gambling is bad for only a few groups of people.

This is the reason why gambling can’t be totally banned because aside that the country is making a regular income from it, some good and responsible gamblers end up lucky and win big amount and make a good earning. But for those who gamble irresponsibly and mismanage their funds due to greed for money, they end up messing up their money and lose all of them and turn homeless. So it’s not actually gambling the cause of life’s destruction, but it’s certainly the wrong motivation and wrong thinking of individual gamblers towards gambling.

[Moreno233]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

[2Pizza410000BTC]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

While you and I see gambling as good, there are many countries that do not see gambling as good, and my country may be one of them. Gambling is completely illegal in my country, if any person from this country gambles, if the government comes to know about him, administrative action will be taken against him. Also, if gambling is done from my country, and if the people of my society come to know about it, the people of my society will also consider the gambling person as bad considering. But one of the reasons why my country and my society consider gambling as bad is that my country is a less developed country and most of the people in this country are daily wage earners. Now if gambling is legalized in this country, people will ruin their career and family by gambling. However, in countries where gambling is legal, gambling is not seen as bad, gambling is considered good.

[Yogee]

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So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

I think there will always be people who say things that are politically correct but never follows it. I can resort to gambling as a means to earn something on the side or I could treat it as a hobby. My personal take on this is that you shouldn't tell people what to do with their money since you don't know how they handle it. People can gamble if they want to as long as they are responsible.

[LogitechMouse]

Re: Is gambling bad to the society?

Gambling is only bad when gamblers are doing anything that may harm other people. I mean there are some gamblers out there that are losing money in gambling and yet, they aren't doing bad things around them. Nobody's affected when they lose money aside from themselves. At the end of the day, we can't just eradicate these casinos because they are paying tax to the government. It's up to us gamblers on how we will react whenever we experience loss or wins.

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So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

Gambling as a hobby? For most, they shouldn't but there are some who are doing it because they afford to do it.
Earn to make a living? There are some gamblers who are doing it because... why not? I mean if they know that they can make money off of it then why would they not do it?

As much as I want to criticize gambling because of its negative effects, there's nothing we can do about it and it's our decision if we will gamble or not.

[sunsilk]

If I give my own opinion about this then gambling will not bad thing until the people makes it bad by themselves like use gambling instead of entertainment they play it for their greed to earn money to get quick rich and as well as some addicted people's make is bad in society.

It looks bad when a gambler doesn't have good results as per their gambling activities. This depends on the gambler on how it reflects to his attitude towards the results, if he's too aggressive every time he's on a losing streak then that's something to be considered because that's seriously bad to the society.

For someone who gambles for the money, it's very unlikely that it's always a good day. So, you are bringing yourself to that part where you should be careful on how to show your emotions when you are having a bad day.

If gambling is literally bad to the society, it's because of the mental aspect that it gives when you're mostly losing at all times.

Economically, it isn't bad because huge taxes are on it and the government benefits from it.

[DaNNy001]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

Wow 😳 so you mean you haven't heard of the Arab communities? Not to sound too direct but I bet I could place my fingers that some of those communities in the Arab world formally restricts gambling tagging it as a violation against the ethics of a good life itself. And again there is this country i saw a research about with the name Turkmenistan which seems to have a lot of restricted activities of which I guess gambling is also part of, even as the world is evolving into a computer age that virtually almost everything is done online the roots of some cultural beliefs still prohibits gamble seeing it as something bad. North Korea would be another example of such places that see gambling as some vile event or habit.