Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere?

[lixer]

Alcohol, Cigarettes and Gambling are all pretty much portrayed the same way. Even they are all legal in most nations.

The reason why Alcohol and Cigarettes are bad is because they are bad for your health and can kill you and cause harm.

Gambling can't kill you because you don't consume it but it can make you an addict like the above and it can cause harmful effects to your financial situation.

Hence the reason why it has a bad rap.

Alcohol can kill right away that's true, but I wouldn't say the same about cigarettes. Cigarettes are supposedly killing you when you chronically smoke them during a long period of time. Same with gambling, if you constantly abuse it you may be deprived of all your money and even go in debt which can potentially kill you. Not only gambling, cigarettes and alcohol have a bad reputation, there are other things, overeating for example, which is also killing you if you abuse it. In short, gambling is not so bad if it is not abused, and btw it is portrayed positively in many books and movies.

Alcohol is also can't kill someone if he consumes it one or two time,but cigarette is more worse it directly affects the lung the single puff can decrease our life time by five minutes.But these are affecting the health but gambling affects the health mentally by over doing them and will cause addiction.But in some religion also it was considered as sin so this maybe a reason that group of people saying it is a bad thing to do.

In that some religion alcohol and gambling also being consider as a sin. It is completely waste of time to invested our hard earned money to shit gambling website. In the final day we will never have returns if you invested on the gambling site.
I advice you to go with the trading instead of wasting your money on gambling this is also the interesting platform to make the money.

I would just skip the religious part and come over to the main topic of the discussion directly. Gambling is indeed an insane game. It makes a gambler feel like he can be rich and this is so fun to sit on a couch or chair while waiting for the result but neither I consider it as some source of earning nor it is entertaining in any way, especially when played for many times, no thrill will be left.

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[TheKeyLongThumbI]

Is it not?  People go there because their very hasty to get rich and they want it to happen in a few minutes of their play. Their positivity where they think that they will win the game is actually a bad thing and that is where all the negative things start to happen.

[Altcoindealer]

Gambling is everywhere negativ portrayed because they are to many people who could not controll themself and lost everything they got. So of course they are a lot of people who get rich with gambling, but they are already more people who make negativ experience with it. And they are more people portrayed on television who make those mistakes. So gambling isnt just gambling, its also making a strategy and thinking before you do something. If you dont, you will lose 100%!

[fabrizoc]

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.

Indeed,  it is a game that sometimes (or always?) leads to addiction. The op said something about trading industry seems like he misunderstood something, trading is a serious but not addicting legal way of earning money unlike in the gambling that purely depends on the player's ability to ace the game and its luck.

That is what I wanted to say. Gambling is all about luck. You don’t have any control on it and your strategies are just not working out in any case if you aren’t that much lucky someday. Believe me, no skill can have any impact on your results when you are gambling. So why to go for such option that is biggest risky for your money? Why to gamble when you already know you will be getting loss? Think over it.

[tailwate07]

Trading and gambling should both be done under the same rules - NO ADDICTION POLICY. We should only gamble/trade that we can afford to lose, and there's nothing wrong in doing both of these (until someone develops some amount of guilt over their decisions in case they lose).

Agree with it,no addiction policy is what everyone need to follow either in gambling or trading but both involves luck too.People won't have any gui;t as long as they are making money even it is a sin in their religion so it all based on money but some people covering their inability to do them with religion.

Addiction is only limited to gambling as people find it an easy way to earn money. also, people think that gambling is much more easier than trading because in gambling, the person having little or no knowledge of market can also win because market is of no use in gambling while in trading, it is of pretty much importance because if you will invest on a business which is already in loss, you will also face loss.

[Supercrypt]

Gambling is all about luck. You don’t have any control on it and your strategies are just not working out in any case if you aren’t that much lucky someday. Believe me, no skill can have any impact on your results when you are gambling. So why to go for such option that is biggest risky for your money? Why to gamble when you already know you will be getting loss? Think over it.

You should not even be considering a strategy as long as it comes to gambling, but instead just depend on your luck and if it does not pull you through, you move on and find something else to do. However, some people have ended up painting the worst picture in their head as they tend to just look for ways to get rich quickly and then believe that gambling will set that path for them when they should be using their funds for something useful or even saving it.

Gambling will only and always make the pocket of the platform owners richer and the gamblers who have the wrong mindset poorer.

[w33man]

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 different with trading, the reason why they are alike is because of the risk you are taking when doing both. Gambling is viewed as a bad habit because it is too addicting and risky. A lot of people destroyed their lives because of gambling, a lot lost a lot of money and even their family because of it.

[reflector]

Gambling is all about luck. You don’t have any control on it and your strategies are just not working out in any case if you aren’t that much lucky someday. Believe me, no skill can have any impact on your results when you are gambling. So why to go for such option that is biggest risky for your money? Why to gamble when you already know you will be getting loss? Think over it.

You should not even be considering a strategy as long as it comes to gambling, but instead just depend on your luck and if it does not pull you through, you move on and find something else to do. However, some people have ended up painting the worst picture in their head as they tend to just look for ways to get rich quickly and then believe that gambling will set that path for them when they should be using their funds for something useful or even saving it.

Gambling will only and always make the pocket of the platform owners richer and the gamblers who have the wrong mindset poorer.

Gambling is the owner's game not the gamblers who have invested on any option. There are people go with the bitcoin and loose all the money over the gambling site. If there are high amount of investors through out the gambling site to play for luck and enjoyment purposes alone.

Since the people loosing the hard earned money on the various gambling site. All the investors showing the gambling website as a negative thing mate.

[Hazaki]

Because it deserves to be portrayed negatively EVERYWHERE around the globe not just almost everywhere ..
It is one of the most destructive if not the most destructive one and it has destroyed many lives than it has made people rich ..
Everyone wants to be like that fancy rich gambler , but you should know that you can end up like that homeless guy living in train station toilets because of it ..

[bitgolden]

That's the problem with the society today, anything they think that involves money would always have a negative feedback. Even trading have negative feedbacks but not like gambling. I think people are so used to hearing gambling and automatically they think it would be a negative thing that's why they tell you to stay away from it. And also sometimes it is based on experience, like a family member of them are addicted to gambling to a point wherein they are unlucky everytime they bet on something. And we can't take away that feeling of getting used to by some, but we can minimize that way of thinking if we don't gamble that much.

I have a little different opinion in this matter. It is not like society considers money as some kind of evil in all cases. Gambling is not the only thing that involves money but instead of giving money to the gambler, it takes away, that is where problem lies and why it is considered as a bad thing. It harms a person’s health and wealth. Moreover, his close ones can also get effected if he is an addict.

[emberbekas]

That's the problem with the society today, anything they think that involves money would always have a negative feedback. Even trading have negative feedbacks but not like gambling. I think people are so used to hearing gambling and automatically they think it would be a negative thing that's why they tell you to stay away from it. And also sometimes it is based on experience, like a family member of them are addicted to gambling to a point wherein they are unlucky everytime they bet on something. And we can't take away that feeling of getting used to by some, but we can minimize that way of thinking if we don't gamble that much.

I have a little different opinion in this matter. It is not like society considers money as some kind of evil in all cases. Gambling is not the only thing that involves money but instead of giving money to the gambler, it takes away, that is where problem lies and why it is considered as a bad thing. It harms a person’s health and wealth. Moreover, his close ones can also get effected if he is an addict.

True, gambling gets its bad name largely due to the side effects of gambling. People not only lose their money but they can ruin their lives if they can not control themselves and surely it will affect the lives of other people near them as well.

[avikz]

Gambling is all about luck. You don’t have any control on it and your strategies are just not working out in any case if you aren’t that much lucky someday. Believe me, no skill can have any impact on your results when you are gambling. So why to go for such option that is biggest risky for your money? Why to gamble when you already know you will be getting loss? Think over it.

You should not even be considering a strategy as long as it comes to gambling, but instead just depend on your luck and if it does not pull you through, you move on and find something else to do. However, some people have ended up painting the worst picture in their head as they tend to just look for ways to get rich quickly and then believe that gambling will set that path for them when they should be using their funds for something useful or even saving it.

Gambling will only and always make the pocket of the platform owners richer and the gamblers who have the wrong mindset poorer.

Gambling is the owner's game not the gamblers who have invested on any option. There are people go with the bitcoin and loose all the money over the gambling site. If there are high amount of investors through out the gambling site to play for luck and enjoyment purposes alone.

Since the people loosing the hard earned money on the various gambling site. All the investors showing the gambling website as a negative thing mate.

Gambling is a business just like any other business. To sustain a business, they need profits and it's not wrong. Gambling houses are not here to do charity! When people gamble, they mostly understand the risk associated with it. Majority of the gamblers understand the risk of loosing money if not all. They also understand that they can win big in their luck support them. That is called responsible gambling! One should not gamble with their last saved penny but if anyone with control to his emotions and finances, will never go bankrupt because of gambling.

It's just the outlook of people towards gambling needs to be changed. Yes, there are people who has gone bankrupt because of gambling. But we have seen instances of people going bankrupt after investing in stocks as well, that is also a form of gambling, packaged in sophistication! I strongly believe, gambling is nothing wrong if you play responsibly. The problem starts when someone goes out of control.

[cluit]

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.

We have different description of what worst is and if you think that gambling is, it's your opinion then. But you may seem not to understand what's the real discussion here. It's not about the fortune, gambling platform, return or anything that's related to the outcome that you can get with gambling. But it's about on how the society thinks about gambling and it's already part of our generation and belief that gambling is bad, negative and everyone should stay away from it.

You have made people aware about gambling as it is a bad habit and you suggested everyone to stay away from it which is totally correct as gambling has no good end which people come to know at the later part of their lives. But this is not the need of this forum as they are asking here about the consequences of gambling here and in my opinion, gambling is bad because of worst ends.

[avikz]

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.

We have different description of what worst is and if you think that gambling is, it's your opinion then. But you may seem not to understand what's the real discussion here. It's not about the fortune, gambling platform, return or anything that's related to the outcome that you can get with gambling. But it's about on how the society thinks about gambling and it's already part of our generation and belief that gambling is bad, negative and everyone should stay away from it.

You have made people aware about gambling as it is a bad habit and you suggested everyone to stay away from it which is totally correct as gambling has no good end which people come to know at the later part of their lives. But this is not the need of this forum as they are asking here about the consequences of gambling here and in my opinion, gambling is bad because of worst ends.

Not everytime though! Gambling not always leads to worst end, if you know how to gamble responsibly, you will never see worst end out of gambling. There are people who have won millions of dollars from gambling, but the story doesn't end here. It can lead that individual in two ways after a million dollar winning.

First is that individual invests that money into other business and spend responsibly which can give that individual a very comfortable life. Second that individual invests that money into gambling again to win even bigger. So here is the difference between a responsible gambler and an addicted gambler.  I already mentioned in my earlier post, that no addiction is good. We all should know when to start and when to stop. If you have researched a little about gambling, you will see addicted gamblers usually ruin their life. But we also have good examples of people who have made their life amazing from a gambling win. So it entire depends on a individual on what to do with their life. Gambling business can't be held responsible.

[qwertyup23]

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?

Two perspectives: the business side and the individual.
For the business, gambling can be very profitable as it attracts mostly users of legal age, and people who have the monetary means. With its name, gambling is also a risk to most casinos as it purely revolves around luck. But mostly, some gamblers tend to over commit their boundaries resulting to an influx of betting which ultimately leads to their downfall. Regardless of what the status may be, a gambler would always go back to a casino.

For the perspective of an individual, gambling is a double-edged sword wherein one may profit from it depending on their luck, and others may feel that the odds are not on their favor. The problem with most gamblers is that, some think that gambling may solve their financial struggles or needs by relying their money on risks. This creates a problem to the society since it creates this endless loop of them going in-and-out of casinos hoping to recover their losses.
Another perspective are mainly for the gamblers who see it purely for entertainment. They gamble primarily for leisure. Regardless of their winnings/loss they typically do not care.

[d1ceplayer]

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 different with trading, the reason why they are alike is because of the risk you are taking when doing both. Gambling is viewed as a bad habit because it is too addicting and risky. A lot of people destroyed their lives because of gambling, a lot lost a lot of money and even their family because of it.

So when we know that gambling is hurting to us and we may lose our financial life in this harmful game, then why still people don’t leave this. Still we have big praise for gambling from different people in different scenarios. They are continuously gambling, losing, rehabilitating with new money and then come again and then losing again and again but they don’t understand.

[idex100]

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?

You made some excellent points here.I think the negative attributes to most Gambling enterprise are as a result of either the organisers or how responsible the players are.I personally believe in such a thing as 'responsible gambling',that is not putting all your life's savings on gambling or your child's education because one can't control the urge,plus the fact that some gambling enterprise operators are fraudulent or are involved in shady deals,that gives gambling a bad name.Gambling can be fun if played by the books.

[boyptc]

During our childhood days I guess most of our parents told us that gambling is wrong, gambling is bad, gambling will make our lives terrible.

And as we grow old, we brought this teaching from our parents and it bears in our mind that gambling is negative in every aspect that we can see.

[kateryana81]

Gambling is all about luck. You don’t have any control on it and your strategies are just not working out in any case if you aren’t that much lucky someday. Believe me, no skill can have any impact on your results when you are gambling. So why to go for such option that is biggest risky for your money? Why to gamble when you already know you will be getting loss? Think over it.

You should not even be considering a strategy as long as it comes to gambling, but instead just depend on your luck and if it does not pull you through, you move on and find something else to do. However, some people have ended up painting the worst picture in their head as they tend to just look for ways to get rich quickly and then believe that gambling will set that path for them when they should be using their funds for something useful or even saving it.

Gambling will only and always make the pocket of the platform owners richer and the gamblers who have the wrong mindset poorer.

Gambling is the owner's game not the gamblers who have invested on any option. There are people go with the bitcoin and loose all the money over the gambling site. If there are high amount of investors through out the gambling site to play for luck and enjoyment purposes alone.

Since the people loosing the hard earned money on the various gambling site. All the investors showing the gambling website as a negative thing mate.

Gambling is a business just like any other business. To sustain a business, they need profits and it's not wrong. Gambling houses are not here to do charity! When people gamble, they mostly understand the risk associated with it. Majority of the gamblers understand the risk of loosing money if not all. They also understand that they can win big in their luck support them. That is called responsible gambling! One should not gamble with their last saved penny but if anyone with control to his emotions and finances, will never go bankrupt because of gambling.

It's just the outlook of people towards gambling needs to be changed. Yes, there are people who has gone bankrupt because of gambling. But we have seen instances of people going bankrupt after investing in stocks as well, that is also a form of gambling, packaged in sophistication! I strongly believe, gambling is nothing wrong if you play responsibly. The problem starts when someone goes out of control.

I also don’t criticize the owners of casinos for using or tricking their customers. It is how all business of the world run. It is not only gambling that is injurious for its player but the coca cola is no different from it. Alcohol, Nutella, McDonald, KFC, Microsoft all the businesses have sustained so far because these are good at playing with human minds rather they understand human nature well.

[Pearls Before Swine]

protrayes gambling as a negative line of earning money online.

It's not a way of earning money, online or otherwise.  The odds are against you from the start, so the longer you gamble the more you lose.  Even if you play a game of skill, your chances of actually coming out ahead are slim.  And it's extremely stressful.  It might sound like great fun, but can you imagine trying to put food on the table by playing poker all day long?  Not only would you not have a reliable income, but you'd risk losing everything on a daily basis.  Not for me, thanks.

So as to why gambling is portrayed negatively.  It's the same reason why drug addiction and alcoholism is.  People who get too far into it, to the point of being a problem gambler, are very much like people with substance use disorders and there has always been a stigma about those maladies.  That probably will never change.  Problem gamblers borrow money, default on loans, and have all sorts of other unsavory behaviors.