Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere?

[SyGambler]

well here since the majority of people are Muslims , gambling is forbidden so religious guys hate gambling and think that gamblers are stupid people who are ready to bet their houses when they face a losing streak

but the young people these days don't think that way , there are many gamblers in Syria and the young generation is realizing more and more that gambling can be either profitable or at least fun

it's a matter of responsibility , some gamblers are truly sick and need to get help but let's see that 95% of them are just doing fine  
but for sure can't define it as 100% bad thing to do

[Juggy777]

This thought system been running through centuries now, if you remember the story of the fox who did not get grapes, he called it sour.

Same is the case with non gamblers, they have made it a social taboo and they try to outcast all who indulge in it.

I believe it's more of a perception value, I been to parties where gamblers and non gamblers were cool with it, then other outings where gamblers were considered trators and said they'll suffer the wrath of Jesus.

Honestly gambling is good for everyone if played in a good manner, however the negative vibes should end.

[avikz]

I think those post that you have read proves that there is nothing to look forward to in gambling. It will just make you broke, so broke that you will have no place to live. I have seen a lot of people experience the same thing and I don't want that to happen to anyone else. The best thing to do is to stay away from it. There is nothing wrong  if you do it, as long as your money can afford it and don't get addicted to it.

Yes! Gambling can make you broke if you can't control your greed. That's true for even trading. I have seen people asking questions on how to recover their thousands of dollars losses in trading. I have also seen people winning big in trading and gambling both. I know the owner of wheel99 website had won 23 BTC jackpot from Bustadice. I have seen a person won 37 bitcoins from FortuneJack on March 30th this year. When we look at the negative side of gambling, we also should look at the sunny side of it as well. 37 bitcoins, is a huge amount in my country and I can start my own restaurant business in my city after paying off my mortgage. That is a life changing moment. Gambling helped a lot of people to change their life forever in good way. We must factor in those things when we factor in the negative things while talking about gambling.

It's entirely your choice whether to gamble or not, but certainly that doesn't give rights to anyone to show gambling in a negative way of earning money just because of the risk it involves.

  

[emberbekas]

I am not a veteran in this gambling industry so trying to understand what majority of the people thinks about it.

I have seen a lot of threads in this section as well as in other online forums which always protrayes gambling as a negative line of earning money online. I have seen people comparing gambling with alcohol addiction. I have seen people actively trying to discourage others from getting into gambling industry. What's wrong with gambling?

It is just another business and also legal in many countries. People who buys lottery tickets are also gambling only.

 In trading industry, you bet on your speculation and in gambling industry, you bet on your luck. In both trading and gambling, there is a risk of loosing money. So why trading is seen as a good way of making money and exactly opposite for gambling?

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

This is due to the many instances of less favorable cases of gambling activity. Many people who go bankrupt and take actions that are considered bad that impact on others including committing crimes in order to smooth their gambling activities. This image has been awakened since a long time and will be difficult to change.

[Tamilson]

Because in some religion the gambling is considered as sin so they are spreading everywhere it is a bad thing to do.And another reason is most of the people in gambling will lose their money so they will say others that is it scam or don't play again.But people failed to understand that gambling is not a money making purpose,it is just an entertainment purpose which involves risking the real money so the excitement is more.

Gambling is made totally for fun, it was just been tagged negatively due to people who abused it and became too greedy in it, since greed is included in deadly sins and we all knew how greedy players are when they play in gambling especially if they don't just considered it as game.

We can't take the fact that people always see gamblers wasting their money to non sense things even though gamblers says it just purely for fun. While in reality, gamblers are the one who really made a bad image for themselves while the society stigmatized it. Maybe the society don't get it and this will pass through generations.

[ethereumhunter]

nothing wrong with gambling but for searching the income with doing gambling, I don't think that it will a good idea because people need to use their own money to win the other money. and not all people can win in everytime they play the games and only those people which have a big in luck in the games that will win the money. I prefer to do trading especially trading cryptocurrency because in trading, although we are lost some money like in a few months ago, we still have a chance to make another profit like what we seen today. but in gambling, once you are lost, your chance to recover your money is small and this is not recommended to stay at the gambling and it's better to search another way to make an income. and if you cannot trading, then maybe you can search another way to make money so you can earn some money for your life.

[livingfree]

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

It is a social taboo and it's already part of the belief in the society through religious teachings that gambling is evil, negative and bad. You know that beliefs are passed from generations to generations and its changing. Maybe in the future the thought about gambling will become positive when governments are promoting good benefits of gambling or sharing those people who got their fortune through it. We can't change this stand about gambling for now but time will come that it will.

[BTCeminjas]

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

It is a social taboo and it's already part of the belief in the society through religious teachings that gambling is evil, negative and bad. You know that beliefs are passed from generations to generations and its changing. Maybe in the future the thought about gambling will become positive when governments are promoting good benefits of gambling or sharing those people who got their fortune through it. We can't change this stand about gambling for now but time will come that it will.

I also heard that social taboo before, gambling was there even a long time ago there is gambling. I think there's no religious may eliminate gambling because it is traditional since people know a currency.
Gambling as of now is normal and it is not bad, but in the eyes of the religious group it is still looking bad and as a part of evil and that concept will be passed through generations by generation.

[livingfree]

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

It is a social taboo and it's already part of the belief in the society through religious teachings that gambling is evil, negative and bad. You know that beliefs are passed from generations to generations and its changing. Maybe in the future the thought about gambling will become positive when governments are promoting good benefits of gambling or sharing those people who got their fortune through it. We can't change this stand about gambling for now but time will come that it will.

I also heard that social taboo before, gambling was there even a long time ago there is gambling. I think there's no religious may eliminate gambling because it is traditional since people know a currency.
Gambling as of now is normal and it is not bad, but in the eyes of the religious group it is still looking bad and as a part of evil and that concept will be passed through generations by generation.

Gambling is already part of the culture, history and tradition. You may say that it's normal and it's not bad because your mind is open and you know that it's a type of business model.

But as we are talking about the negative thought that is being portrayed by others, it's hard to stop this mindset.

[xIIImaL]

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

It is a social taboo and it's already part of the belief in the society through religious teachings that gambling is evil, negative and bad. You know that beliefs are passed from generations to generations and its changing. Maybe in the future the thought about gambling will become positive when governments are promoting good benefits of gambling or sharing those people who got their fortune through it. We can't change this stand about gambling for now but time will come that it will.

I am not that much religious person but still gambling is really worst thing according to me. If you have invested there any gambling platform will it give return to end of the day. It is not all a true thing mate.
I see the gambling just wasting your fund on dustpin. Instead of that you guys devoting gambling can donate the poor people near to your home side mate. Even government and shit politicians getting bribe and allowing people loose the money if they are third world country too.

[Shadovka]

By right gambling is just another business in another industry however because of many people either too engross or addicted to gambling causing a lot of problems to others or their own life. When someone lose all their money on the gambling table they will resort to either borrow money from loanshark even attempt to rob people in order to continue their gambling which is a vicious circle and never ending. This cause many social problems and destroy many families.

[Shenzou]

The reason why gambling is consider a bad thing is because of how it has been represented by bad cases and how it is tied to bad people, sure in some religions it is stated that gambling is bad and unethical, but with some people where gambling can lead to addiction and how it is a waste of money, and how it could tear lives apart, and also the fact that they think there is no work put in it it is all about luck, but one does not make assumption about things he never tired it, and that is what society is all about, we are all doing and believing what we have been told.

[Betwrong]

I am not a veteran in this gambling industry so trying to understand what majority of the people thinks about it.

I have seen a lot of threads in this section as well as in other online forums which always protrayes gambling as a negative line of earning money online. I have seen people comparing gambling with alcohol addiction. I have seen people actively trying to discourage others from getting into gambling industry. What's wrong with gambling?

It is just another business and also legal in many countries. People who buys lottery tickets are also gambling only.

 In trading industry, you bet on your speculation and in gambling industry, you bet on your luck. In both trading and gambling, there is a risk of loosing money. So why trading is seen as a good way of making money and exactly opposite for gambling?

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

Gambling is definitely not just another business. It is like saying about alcohol that it is just another drink comparing it to non-alcoholic drinks. Gambling is addictive and that's a fact regardless of whether we like it or not. No way I'm trying to say that gambling should be banned or anything like that. I like to play poker myself and I play dice from time to time, and I, like you, think that there's almost no difference between trading and gambling, but I think we should be very cautious about both. Generally speaking, we should be very cautious about any business from which we may expect big profits in a short period of time.

[gabmen]

Well obviously because it drains people of their money. We all know that it's the attitude ofnthese people that does that and gambling is just a tool, but none the less, it's already incorporated with greed. Many people will always see gambling in a bad light because of abusive people's behavior towards it

[pinggoki]

It's not a negative way of earning , gambling is more like a easy sort of way for making quick cash and the chances of making that is possible but the problem is within the people who use this method , most of them do make profit but because of there greed they continue to gamble and lose it all. This is why many consider it to be negative otherwise there are many ways to make money from gambling

Indeed, the people who frequently access this gambling is the problem not the game it self. Gambling is created to make a quick cash and for entertainment however, there's a little chance for you to win in this field. Players became addicted upon it because they cannot control their emotion, as they lose they will tend to play again to retieve of what they have lost but they didn't know they are getting to it and become addict and these are the reason why the image of gambling became bad.

[seven2smoke1]

I am not a veteran in this gambling industry so trying to understand what majority of the people thinks about it.

I have seen a lot of threads in this section as well as in other online forums which always protrayes gambling as a negative line of earning money online. I have seen people comparing gambling with alcohol addiction. I have seen people actively trying to discourage others from getting into gambling industry. What's wrong with gambling?

It is just another business and also legal in many countries. People who buys lottery tickets are also gambling only.

 In trading industry, you bet on your speculation and in gambling industry, you bet on your luck. In both trading and gambling, there is a risk of loosing money. So why trading is seen as a good way of making money and exactly opposite for gambling?

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

They consider gambling as a bad thing of earning money because of two things:
1- They thought that gambling is too risky, because the most of gambling games needs a pure luck, Some gamblers maybe become addicted and they lose their control in gambling and maybe they loss a lot of money because of that.
2- They think that gambling is a sin. In some countries in the world, gambling is considered like a prohibited activity, because it contradict some religions.

[universal3ee]

I am not a veteran in this gambling industry so trying to understand what majority of the people thinks about it.

I have seen a lot of threads in this section as well as in other online forums which always protrayes gambling as a negative line of earning money online. I have seen people comparing gambling with alcohol addiction. I have seen people actively trying to discourage others from getting into gambling industry. What's wrong with gambling?

It is just another business and also legal in many countries. People who buys lottery tickets are also gambling only.

 In trading industry, you bet on your speculation and in gambling industry, you bet on your luck. In both trading and gambling, there is a risk of loosing money. So why trading is seen as a good way of making money and exactly opposite for gambling?

I belive it is just a social taboo about gambling and we need to rethink our stand towards gambling. It is just another legal business. What's your view?

Gambling can destroy a person life totally when they lose, just like smoking once you start you cannot quit easily. People that is holding a job will be unable to focus on his job as he is too into the gambling addiction which makes him lose interest in everything and only want to gamble.

[markdario112616]

It's because of the man's actions and greediness. We all know that the real purpose of gambling is for fun and entertainment but then again too much is too much. A man's willingness to have more than what he already have creates the idea of greediness. In which greediness aims to destroy the sole purpose of gambling. Upon reaching to some point in which a man begin to be addicted to the system, the outcome of his actions is horrendous. Which contributes to a negative reputation for the Gambling industry. The possibility of a man's under his addiction is devastating, it destroy's the balance of life.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

It's because of the man's actions and greediness. We all know that the real purpose of gambling is for fun and entertainment but then again too much is too much. A man's willingness to have more than what he already have creates the idea of greediness. In which greediness aims to destroy the sole purpose of gambling. Upon reaching to some point in which a man begin to be addicted to the system, the outcome of his actions is horrendous. Which contributes to a negative reputation for the Gambling industry. The possibility of a man's under his addiction is devastating, it destroy's the balance of life.

Yes I’d say, answering to OP, that the difference between trading and gambling is that picture of a gambling addict. There are also cases of people who commit fraud while working in a bank to hide their losses from trading but not nearly as many as the guy next door having gambling problems and ruining his life.

Although I believe that problematic gambling behavior is a result of previous problems.

[Wendigo]

Gamble for fun and not for profit and everything will be alright. Things can get complicated in a negative way when people get too excited after a couple of wins and think they could earn a living gambling which is attainable only for a 0.1% of very successful pro bettors.