Does good side of gambling overcomes its negative side?

[Eugenar]

Gambling affects us through positive and negative. I know there are so many gamblers that are really used in gambling on which they have already experience many things while gambling and for sure they have experienced good sides and bad sides of gambling.

I just want to list down all the positive and negative things of gambling:
Positive:
1. Gambling will let you think analytically and logically.
2. Boost your decision making.
3. It will let you interact with other people which is good for socializing.
4. Gives you happiness and entertainment
5. It can be a source of income.

Negative:
1. It will make you unproductive in other things.
2. It may destroy your life if you get so addicted on it.
3. It will lessen your time spending on your family.
4. You may lose your money.
5. Some says that it will lessen your reputation.

It made me realize, do positive things will let you stay from gambling?

[Janation]

Positive:
1. Gambling will let you think analytically and logically.
3. It will let you interact with other people which is good for socializing.

This depends on people and where they are gambling.

Since we are using cryptocurrencies, I can assume that we usually gamble online either fiat or cryptos. Number 1 would not be included if a gambler is betting on dice games since that is a lucky-unlucky situation, you don't really need to think. Another thing is that most online gamblers don't usually talk at chats, usually, they are busy and just letting the bots do the betting.

Negative:
1. It will make you unproductive in other things.
3. It will lessen your time spending on your family.

Number 4 is inevitable and other else is obvious.

1 and 3 can be lessened. As I said, a lot of people here are betting online and most of them use Bots. In that way, they can lessen their time in front of their PCs or laptops and focus on what they need to be done. They are still productive and at the same time, they have time with their family.

It made me realize, do positive things will let you stay from gambling?

Yes, I will.

I am gambling for a while now and I am not really addicted so I have no problem with it. The problem in my case is that I am spending most of my time, more like wasting my time since I don't have that much money to start with and I am just using faucet sats that I can get. Still, it is entertaining and a good thing to relax, I do auto-bet too but it will be lost so quickly.

[DoublerHunter]

^ Definitely right but all of these were depends on you. You can manage your self from addiction and since from the start, you are already aware of those consequences that probably happen which is a negative or positive outcome for you. For number 3 of negative impact, it also probably results in losing your family and becomes your life miserable. Nevertheless, controlling your self and motions is the best key to avoid those negative impacts. It sounds good if all are a positive effect at your side.

[peter0425]

It made me realize, do positive things will let you stay from gambling?

Is this "stay Away from Gambling"? or i am wrong?

anyway lets be truthful here guys,we Knew that it is our choice in which brings us to either Positive or negative in gambling.

it is about decision making like what you said in Positive part but this will also brings you to failure.

so it is still our mind and heart that will decide.

[Wexnident]

Bro Bro bro. Stop putting positives and negatives in activities. Look at this. Does holding a gun in public bad? Most would probably answer yes, but look at how policemen hold guns in public. They don't give you fear or don't think of it as being wrong no? But look if some unknown man had a gun in public. You'd probably be in fear, right? It all depends on who is doing that action. You may say my example may be a bit biased, but I stand to hold with my view. It all depends on "who" you are and what you use it for.

Sides, other than that, Gambling doesn't really make you become unproductive ( commenting on this cause it kinda hit me negatively ). You not wanting to become productive is the reason. Pretty much the same idea I said above, but I wanted to emphasize that anything, whether it be gambling, playing, etc., doesn't make you unproductive or stuff like that. Just imagine how killers ( Not saying to become one, just saying it out for the sake of argument) think up of numerous plots that the police can't understand. Does that make them "unproductive"? If yes, then you already hold a bias opinion of what "productive" means and shows that anything good is "productive" and anything bad is "unproductive".

[Slow death]

honestly speaking the game has more disadvantages than advantages. If you are not the owner of the gambling site you will lose money. Even in my case that I take the games to a side of fun. I lose money, even it is a small amount just for fun, but this does not change the fact that I am losing money. There are few people who make money and if these people do not give up the game when they make money, then in the long run they end up losing all the money they won

[boyptc]

It made me realize, do positive things will let you stay from gambling?

If I'm totally good and made it as a source of income, I'll stay. But, there's also a negative effect if that became a positive reason for someone to stay.

Because that it became a source of income, many people will think that you're crazy because your source is gambling. It's not accepted in many societies in the world. And in reality, it's hard to do and apply it.

[mu_enrico]

Well, @OP, you can make this positive and negative case in almost all activities, and we (people) just have to decide what's best for ourselves considering our situation and condition at that particular moment. For example: Playing video games, did the positive outweigh the negative? It depends. If I'm so bored because of "self-distancing," playing video games would be more beneficial than getting depressed.

If you are broke as a joke, and then use your money in a dice game or whatever, there's no positive in it.

[Bezobraznike]

   For me positive side of gambling overcomes it's negative side. I find gambling entertaining, it's not the income I count on because
I gamble with low amounts, and I would like to believe that gambling boosted my analytic skills and decision making.
   I'm not afraid of negative side of gambling. I believe I have a strong character, I don't gamble everyday, it can't ruin me financially
as I said I don't spend big amounts.

[leowonderful]

5. It can be a source of income.

No, no, no, no. There may be a very, very small slice of the population that gambles that manages to eke out a living somehow through gambling, but for the regular Joe, gambling is not a source of income and you should not be thinking about it for your own safety. If you treat gambling as a potential source of income, it becomes much easier to gamble away money you actually need for necessities and you might start digging yourself into a hole you can't get out of that way.

As for whether the positives outweigh the negatives, it really varies by each person. Some people just shouldn't gamble for a number of reasons, and that's perfectly fine.

[FlightyPouch]

It made me realize, do positive things will let you stay from gambling?

Yes, even the negative ones. Once a person is addicted to gambling, no matter what the cause is, negative or positive, that gambler will stay in gambling. None of these matters since addicted gamblers don't apply any of these in the real world. They may be unproductive, obviously destroying their lives, don't care about his family, and despite him known as a gambler, he doesn't care. All he cares about is that he had money to gamble.

[Latviand]

^ Definitely right but all of these were depends on you. You can manage your self from addiction and since from the start, you are already aware of those consequences that probably happen which is a negative or positive outcome for you.

I'm an experienced gambler and I guarantee you that it is not easy to do self-discipline if you're just starting from playing it. Beginner gamblers are more susceptible to exploring and experimenting the gambling world. Most beginners are getting addicted if they see that they are winning, and as they are enjoying, they never noticed that the negative effect of gambling will now enter his career. You will just realize your mistakes after you experience failure and huge losses, and that is the time you will practice self-discipline and emotional control. In gambling, negative results have a higher probabilty than positive results, meaning, gambling is just for fan and if you're not lucky enough then you should stop.

For number 3 of negative impact, it also probably results in losing your family and becomes your life miserable. Nevertheless, controlling your self and motions is the best key to avoid those negative impacts. It sounds good if all are a positive effect at your side.

Having a lot of failure or negative results will make you stressed and depressed. Don't let gambling affects your environment or the people surrounding you, gambling is just temporary and for entertainment to relieve stress, not as a source of stress. When you came home, spend some time with your family so that the stress that gambling gave you will be relieved. Other options is that, do not gambling, instead stay at your home and take care of your family so that they will just enjoy having quality time with you. Plus, you can monitor what is happening inside your house and let your kids enjoy their youth.

[AicecreaME]

It depends on what kind of people your audience is, if your audience have a wide perspective that understand critical thinking, then there would be no negative opinion regarding about gambling, but if it is the other way around, expect that you'll get a lot of negative comments and a lot of judgement. Positive and negative sides of gambling also depends on the gambler, besides, you'll learn in both ways, so I guess there is no lose if someone wanted to try how it looks like in the gambling world.

[Yaunfitda]

I would suggest to read @avikz posts below, I think this is related or relevant to the current discussions.

(1) Why gambling is portrayed negatively almost everywhere?
(2) Benefits of gambling? Yes - it exists!
(3) How gambling can effect the economy of a country [Part 1 - USA]
(4) How gambling can effect the economy of a country [Part 2 - Macau]

[hahay]

I don't think it's as easy as imagined and said like that about the positive value that you can get in gambling, no matter how much profit you get in gambling in the end there will only be regret for the loss and bankruptcy experienced, because when you make gambling as a source of income then you will only continue to bet without realizing the right time to stop. In my personal view the positive value that you can get in gambling is about emotional control or self control.

[Blackdeath]

In my own opinion, the positive and the negative side of gambling will always remain balance. The best example for it is when you gamble for money there is a chance that you could really earn money to it and at the same time you could be greedy and lose yourself control that in the end you will get bankrupt and learn your lesson.

[ralle14]

Like the other have mentioned it'll depend on the gambler, how much they spend time on the activity and what's the real reason since not everyone have the same view in gambling but overall it could be on the negative side just because of the addiction part and how it can ruin the lives of others. For me there's more good to it than bad once you know how to moderate yourself and what I like about it is the discussions specifically on sports betting.

Is this "stay Away from Gambling"? or i am wrong?

anyway lets be truthful here guys,we Knew that it is our choice in which brings us to either Positive or negative in gambling.

it is about decision making like what you said in Positive part but this will also brings you to failure.

so it is still our mind and heart that will decide.

Since OP mentioned the positives then it fits the question unless he wanted to say the other way around and made a typo.

 

[Saint-loup]

3. It will let you interact with other people which is good for socializing.

I disagree with that. I think it's only true if you gamble "in real life". But if you gamble online like more and more people are doing you'll not meet any people neither interact with them. You will just interact with some bots in fact  

[Meowth05]

With your pros and cons listed, you should also evaluate the weight or impact of each item. For me, the list of cons outweigh the pros by a large margin because most of the cons involve finance while pros tend to favor emotional.

[traderethereum]

I think some people will still try to playing gambling even if they know the positive and negative side of gambling games. Some of them can control themselves in gambling because their purpose is not for making money. But for some other people, they become addicting because they cannot control themselves and they spend their money to play gambling more and more. As long as we can control ourselves while we are playing gambling, we don't have to worry or afraid.