Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere?

[goaldigger]

Kidding aside, but Maybe bacause movies make a great influence on the peoples thinking about gambling and casino. Almost all the action movies ive watched has a casino scene which has gun fight scenes and most people there are illegal doers. Another thing is that, people who loses money has a high temper and can do anything even killing people. Other than these, i dont think there are more.

[pureclckr]

Because it's not a healthy industry. It's a vice and not a hobby that could make you more productive or focused in things that you do. You could easily get sucked in type of situation that feels like hell where getting out is another miracle.

Why won’t be anything that is harmful, as you have also mentioned, be portrayed negatively or prohibited? Gambling has the power to ruin anyone’s life. This world has only few gamblers that really became rich by this game. I have seen people committing suicide because of losing all capital.  Anyway, a sensible person who loves his life won’t go for such an option which can turn his life into a living hell.

[wuvdoll]

Stock trading can be labeled as gambling as well but it has been polished even though it's almost the same thing it's just an educated guessing at best. Gambling when done with restraint is a fun game just like any other but some people just go overboard and then eventually loses everything.

Why put it as stock trading when we can just say trading in general ? This is not gambling as you may have made it sound, but I would rather call it an educated gambling which you can be making a lot from as long as you are knowledgeable and experience and that is one thing you can never ever get to achieve from the real gambling world when everything is totally based on luck.

People forget a lot that the only time when you can attribute trading as gambling is when you simply have no strategy at all. Some entered the world of gambling for the wrong reasons and when they start losing a lot, they start trying to see if there is a little chance luck could shine on them to recover what they have lost and stop gambling and unfortunately for them, after so many years and months, they are still trying to recover till date and have turned themselves to a liability and nuisance to the society.

[Emitdama]

because gambling is the most prohibited by the state of the world and gambling is also the most sinful thing in various religions. so it's true that gambling is always negatively depicted because it can harm people too

No gambling is not prohibited everywhere in the world. Most of the government provide licenses to online and traditional casinos and make good money out of it.

Still, there are many people operating casinos without getting any permission to save taxes, that can cause legal issue for players as well.

Even if gambling is prohibited in some places it is simply because of the effect it usually has on some people and probably the government is just trying to in a way save its citizens. Gambling itself a negative thing hence portraying it negatively is not a wrong doing, in my view.

However, it is not because of this act by the government that makes it to be portrayed negative, it is just because of the fact that it brings a lot of negativity virtually to most of the people that are involved in it, probably because they had the wrong mindset which most of the time is always the case and then they get so overwhelmed until the lose out completely.

There are hardly any area in this world that is free of gambling. Although there are rules in different countries about banning of gambling. It is prohibited in so many countries but still that seems to be useless because people want to get money through them and then ultimately fail. This game never let you win in a row and never ever make you a rich person. So don’t just go in there.

[OrangeSeller]

because gambling teaches us to bet money without doing any work. it is very bad in the eyes of society. but actually there is a good side of gambling, which is the basic science of trading.

Yes,that's the reason why people has a negative perspective of gambling.They consider it as a bad habit or vices which sometimes destroy family relationship.If the person involved in this kind of habit she/he may consider many risk of lossing not just money but a good family ties.Always put limitations to everything.

I can never say well to gambling because I have seen many people in my life who lose everything in gambling. They have no respect in society and people do not interact with them because they are thought the worst people in the society and if you relate with them others will think that you are also a gambler. They even have no respect in their families.

If something is not good, then we cannot say that it is a very good thing and that you will get a lot of money if you go for any such thing. We need to be realistic to ourselves and that being realistic, there is hardly any kind of reason because of which we can say that one should go for gambling. Gambling is the worst thing to do and that the moment you will go for it, our get ready to lose most of your money.

[kevpantof]

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.

I think gambling is just entertainment and maybe it just becomes wrong if the money we use to bet is compromised and there is more that is meant to be used probably for family and leave all responsibility for our loved ones just to gamble. Gambling has always been described negatively since from the past

I disagree to that, no matter what excuses we have just to depend gambling, we can't change the fact that it is wrong, betting our money is wrong, so expect that many people will give negative comments about gambling, they are only saying what experience they have had when they played gambling the first time, they just learned their lesson, that is why they are discouraging everyone to try gambling since it is not worth it.

Well, whether gambling is a wrong action or not, it entirely depends on the individuals involved. If they are of the opinion that losing hard earned money by placing bets and depending completely on luck is a ridiculous plus harmful act, then absolutely it will be wrong but if someone thinks that it is pretty much fine to utilize some bucks this way, he won’t name it a crime certainly. For me, this is harmful so it is wrong also.

[BarbieCasino]

Stock trading can be labeled as gambling as well but it has been polished even though it's almost the same thing it's just an educated guessing at best. Gambling when done with restraint is a fun game just like any other but some people just go overboard and then eventually loses everything.

Why put it as stock trading when we can just say trading in general ? This is not gambling as you may have made it sound, but I would rather call it an educated gambling which you can be making a lot from as long as you are knowledgeable and experience and that is one thing you can never ever get to achieve from the real gambling world when everything is totally based on luck.

People forget a lot that the only time when you can attribute trading as gambling is when you simply have no strategy at all. Some entered the world of gambling for the wrong reasons and when they start losing a lot, they start trying to see if there is a little chance luck could shine on them to recover what they have lost and stop gambling and unfortunately for them, after so many years and months, they are still trying to recover till date and have turned themselves to a liability and nuisance to the society.

Don’t know why trading is being discussed here and neither if consider it as some educated gambling. Both are poles apart. Gambling is all about luck and opposite to this, trading is all about skills plus knowledge.  A person can survive in gambling with help of his luck but he stands zero chance in trading world. Some wild guesses do not return profits in trading. For me, there is nothing similar in them.

[yoseph]

Stock trading can be labeled as gambling as well but it has been polished even though it's almost the same thing it's just an educated guessing at best. Gambling when done with restraint is a fun game just like any other but some people just go overboard and then eventually loses everything.

Why put it as stock trading when we can just say trading in general ? This is not gambling as you may have made it sound, but I would rather call it an educated gambling which you can be making a lot from as long as you are knowledgeable and experience and that is one thing you can never ever get to achieve from the real gambling world when everything is totally based on luck.

People forget a lot that the only time when you can attribute trading as gambling is when you simply have no strategy at all. Some entered the world of gambling for the wrong reasons and when they start losing a lot, they start trying to see if there is a little chance luck could shine on them to recover what they have lost and stop gambling and unfortunately for them, after so many years and months, they are still trying to recover till date and have turned themselves to a liability and nuisance to the society.

Don’t know why trading is being discussed here and neither if consider it as some educated gambling. Both are poles apart. Gambling is all about luck and opposite to this, trading is all about skills plus knowledge.  A person can survive in gambling with help of his luck but he stands zero chance in trading world. Some wild guesses do not return profits in trading. For me, there is nothing similar in them.

With trading there is some degree of luck as well when you do indeed want to make some profits, But with gambling its 100% about luck and nothing else.

[STT]

Not true really, some games are both luck and skill to manage the odds.  You cant say poker is all luck, but also it applies generally to all the games I think in terms of money management.

Also inversely, some trading is to some extent luck.   Its incalculable odds in many cases, you just rely sometimes on the right news breaking on that day or just a market trend that occurs and builds to help complete a trade profitably.    Again the main difference is money and risk management, knowing when your bet, gamble, trade has not taken off and should be cut loose.   Alot of people fail that final test imo.

[LuffyD.Monkey]

because gambling is the most prohibited by the state of the world and gambling is also the most sinful thing in various religions. so it's true that gambling is always negatively depicted because it can harm people too

No gambling is not prohibited everywhere in the world. Most of the government provide licenses to online and traditional casinos and make good money out of it.

Still, there are many people operating casinos without getting any permission to save taxes, that can cause legal issue for players as well.

Even if gambling is prohibited in some places it is simply because of the effect it usually has on some people and probably the government is just trying to in a way save its citizens. Gambling itself a negative thing hence portraying it negatively is not a wrong doing, in my view.

However, it is not because of this act by the government that makes it to be portrayed negative, it is just because of the fact that it brings a lot of negativity virtually to most of the people that are involved in it, probably because they had the wrong mindset which most of the time is always the case and then they get so overwhelmed until the lose out completely.

I think gambling should be banned in all the places over the world rather than the specified places where gambling is banned all the year just to show people that they are doing much efforts to stop this virus from destroying innocent people lives. Gambling isn’t a negative thing officially but it becomes negative the way people use it by putting bets and winning money in it.

[btc_angela]

because gambling is the most prohibited by the state of the world and gambling is also the most sinful thing in various religions. so it's true that gambling is always negatively depicted because it can harm people too

No gambling is not prohibited everywhere in the world. Most of the government provide licenses to online and traditional casinos and make good money out of it.

Still, there are many people operating casinos without getting any permission to save taxes, that can cause legal issue for players as well.

Even if gambling is prohibited in some places it is simply because of the effect it usually has on some people and probably the government is just trying to in a way save its citizens. Gambling itself a negative thing hence portraying it negatively is not a wrong doing, in my view.

However, it is not because of this act by the government that makes it to be portrayed negative, it is just because of the fact that it brings a lot of negativity virtually to most of the people that are involved in it, probably because they had the wrong mindset which most of the time is always the case and then they get so overwhelmed until the lose out completely.

I think gambling should be banned in all the places over the world rather than the specified places where gambling is banned all the year just to show people that they are doing much efforts to stop this virus from destroying innocent people lives. Gambling isn’t a negative thing officially but it becomes negative the way people use it by putting bets and winning money in it.

Banning it is a different story though, Gambling has been with us since the beginning of time so I don't think that banning it can be done in just a few years. Of course government can prohibited it, but at the same time they can also issue permits to those who wanted to operate it legally. Its been portrayed very negative though because a lot of people thought that its the best way to earn money quick but it shouldn't be consider as a job, more of a hobby or just for fun.

[Natsuu]

Because it's not a healthy industry. It's a vice and not a hobby that could make you more productive or focused in things that you do. You could easily get sucked in type of situation that feels like hell where getting out is another miracle.

Indeed because when you get addicted to it it's hard to quit and the more you think you quit the more you get involve.

Gambling portrayed like this is because of the people itself that drives their intuition to play more and eventually get hook and addicted. Everything that leads to us to addiction is label like this because addiction can't do nothing thus can bring us to our worse version.

[BitcoinCommodor]

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.

I think gambling is just entertainment and maybe it just becomes wrong if the money we use to bet is compromised and there is more that is meant to be used probably for family and leave all responsibility for our loved ones just to gamble. Gambling has always been described negatively since from the past

I disagree to that, no matter what excuses we have just to depend gambling, we can't change the fact that it is wrong, betting our money is wrong, so expect that many people will give negative comments about gambling, they are only saying what experience they have had when they played gambling the first time, they just learned their lesson, that is why they are discouraging everyone to try gambling since it is not worth it.

Well, whether gambling is a wrong action or not, it entirely depends on the individuals involved. If they are of the opinion that losing hard earned money by placing bets and depending completely on luck is a ridiculous plus harmful act, then absolutely it will be wrong but if someone thinks that it is pretty much fine to utilize some bucks this way, he won’t name it a crime certainly. For me, this is harmful so it is wrong also.

Your first part of statement is agreeable but I have restrictions for the other part of your comment. Actually there is nothing good in gambling. You can’t just input some bucks for fun or entertainment or earning sense, because everything you just put in there is a loss for you that you wouldn’t be getting back. So don’t be stupid to lose what you have hardly earned. Thing over it.

[LogitechMouse]

Because it's not a healthy industry. It's a vice and not a hobby that could make you more productive or focused in things that you do. You could easily get sucked in type of situation that feels like hell where getting out is another miracle.

Indeed because when you get addicted to it it's hard to quit and the more you think you quit the more you get involve.

Gambling portrayed like this is because of the people itself that drives their intuition to play more and eventually get hook and addicted. Everything that leads to us to addiction is label like this because addiction can't do nothing thus can bring us to our worse version.

In reality, gambling is just a vice but some gamblers see gambling as their hobby already because they are doing it everyday.

It is portrayed in that way because most gamblers are losing their money in gambling. In some movies too, wherever they are in the casinos or other gambling places there are always fight scenes (I think).

[anavir]

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.

true,before its too late,stay away from gambling.We heared negative result from gambling already like:losing properties,families and full of debt and even some committed suicide so,before being addicted to gambling don't start.

[ArIMy11]

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?

We all know that we can earn money from gambling in an easy way but gambling is not always about winning, it also about losing money if we cannot control ourselves to it. It is the reason why gambling is portrayed negatively. Most people who start thread / topic about gambling are the people who lose in gambling. I think you'll understand it more when you experience losing a big amount of money.

[Kate Beckett]

There is a bad attitude to gambling, because players can not stop and control themselves in time. Very many people become dependent on the gambling business, they get into debt, take loans, sell their property. With gambling, there are more negative, rather than positive impressions and stories. People describe it negatively, because they do not want more people to get involved in this industry.

[STT]

Kidding aside, but Maybe bacause movies make a great influence on the peoples thinking about gambling and casino. Almost all the action movies ive watched has a casino scene which has gun fight scenes and most people there are illegal doers. Another thing is that, people who loses money has a high temper and can do anything even killing people. Other than these, i dont think there are more.

Literally theres a movie called casino depicting horrific events, to some extent did actually occur near Las Vegas in a period organised crime had 'better' control over the place while also being incredibly violent apparently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spilotro

But the end titles for Casino is one of my favs too -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jN_8mp-g78

Gambling relates to high drama quite easily, thats part of the attraction,  negative and positive therein

[Mastsetad]

Yes gambling is portrayed negatively because it is having harmful effects on the community. I agree trading is also somewhat like gambling and can be called educated gambling. But there’s much difference. The amount we invest for trading is used for some productive purpose whereas in gambling only games of chance are played for money. Gamblers get addicted to it as it involves earning money quite easily but in trading a person has to do research and analysis. Gambling is actually a social taboo.

See gambling is there in every single part of our life the only difference is this is direct and others are indirect. A
The reason why people hate gambling is because it provided quick money for many , but this quick money comes with a lot of risk and that risk is what gives people that mindset.
This is a type of topic that everyone will have different mindset but if you gamble the right way there is no harm and there is profit

Because gambling is negative thing in almost all societies of the world. There is no community who say positive about gambling. Gambler has no respect in the community and even in his home. If we look the result of gambling it always ends in worse and a gambler lose all his money and even his business and properties. These are the reasons that gambling is portrayed negatively in the world.

[cluit]

most people after gambling get defeated and make trouble can by killing, stealing or others that become public order disturbed so that people think it is a negative thing activity.

This is the case, definitely. Once the root of something is evil how you can think of the upper body being an angel? No, absolutely not. The thing is, people from all over the world knows and their unanimous decision was to ban this gambling in every country. Since then some governments took decision and banned gambling while others still didn’t and people are continuously getting ruined there.

Lol. You do have some good points though since let's face the fact, nothing good has really come from gambling and those who eventually win a huge amount of money, quite a few number of them always end up utilizing it for something tangible while a lot of them still always end up losing it all back eventually at some point.

The thing is that human nature is filled with raging greed and that is one thing that if cannot be tamed by whoever is willing to gamble will always fall into that trap of addiction which is where the craziness starts.