Does good side of gambling overcomes its negative side?

[Yudhisthir]

There are many things in our lives that we do and most of it doesn't have a reason or reasonable outcome. Everyone need to do something to entertain themselves. Gambling and Alcohol are the two things that are as old as time and people indulge themselves to have fun. If you hadn't gambled or had any alcohol, is your life worth living?

[rhomelmabini]

There are many things in our lives that we do and most of it doesn't have a reason or reasonable outcome. Everyone need to do something to entertain themselves. Gambling and Alcohol are the two things that are as old as time and people indulge themselves to have fun. If you hadn't gambled or had any alcohol, is your life worth living?

I don't think those have no reason at all for sure there are you are just blind to see them whether they are bad or good. I think even no alcohol and gambling our lives will still be worth living those two just wants and we don't need them to be part of our lives. I think alcohol and gambling will be there for more time than our time to be spent on family or the money to sustain our everyday living.

[Asuspawer09]

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?

Sure thing gambling has negative and positive but it also just depend to us if what are we going to allow in our selves except when it comes to money, of course, you cannot really make it win at all time.

But I guess the other negatives still depend on what we are doing and for sure we could eliminate that and have a balanced lifestyle at gambling.

[iv4n]

Good side can be winning, having fun while you play! Bad side is when you lose money, losing money drag other problems with it. So on question: "Does good side of gambling overcomes its negative side?" if answer is positive you should continue with gambling and having fun, if answer is negative stop with gambling immediately, it will just make you a huge problem, sooner or later!
For me gambling is fun activity, every gambling game is interesting on its own way, I like to play many of them! In last month I play poker like crazy, especially after we started playing first bitcoin talk championship series!

[Stedsm]

I believe you shouldn't compare positive things as well as positive thinking to gambling because if you're doing that, then you are discriminating a gambler as a negative personality.

It's not necessary that if gambling irks a few people in your society, means you are a non-reputable person. I believe that it's the way how you look at your situation while gambling which matters and not the others, because people is here with many mouths and each month will spit out a different story about you. I believe that if you do it for fun, there needs no reason for you to be shy or feel depressed, but getting addicted to it may get you into trouble when you start asking people for money to gamble with it.

[bitcoinst]

Everyone should remember their principles. It is they who show us the way and suggest what decisions should be made, provided that we listen to them.
If at some point you feel that gambling is contrary to your principles, for example, such as family, friends, helping people, then obviously the right decision would be to refuse gambling or at least review your behavior.

[kawetsriyanto]

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

I think this is only applied for physical gambling, not for online gambling.
Anyway, I don't think interaction during playing gambling with others will be very useful for socializing purposes. You won't talk freely or speaking much while playing, which probably impairs concentration.   

5. It can be a source of income.

NO, mate. I don't think you can rely on gambling to get income. Instead, you mostly lose money on gambling as the chance to win is quite small. It is more reasonable if you expect for the entertainment of fun by playing gambling. However, it depends on the gambler's own perception, whether he views gambling is a money source or a fun place.

[TheUltraElite]

The points posted by the OP are an exaggeration of what any risk vs reward scheme that people have taken part in since time immemorial. We have seen gamblers go bust due to their greed and people making money off the street. Which one do you think is the actualy truth? The first one. Otherwise the casinos would never exist.

Remember that the prize of a big win is often used as a marketing gimmick for casinos. You will definitely not see a gambling site advertising how much losses their player incurred. That does not mean that they are doing something wrong, no.

A gambler must understand that gambling is a mode of entertainment and a mode of spending money and not a mode of income.

Moreover gambling on games like dice and slots does not help in developing analytical skills, rather more of brain degeneration due to the continuous mental trauma of losing money. Analytical skills are obtained prior to gambling in sports and doing the other way round is a sure shot loss.

[maydna]

Everyone should remember their principles. It is they who show us the way and suggest what decisions should be made, provided that we listen to them.
If at some point you feel that gambling is contrary to your principles, for example, such as family, friends, helping people, then obviously the right decision would be to refuse gambling or at least review your behavior.

If that is the case, you should realize that gambling is not for you because there is a contrary to your principles. No matter how hard you try to playing gambling, you will feel that is not right because you know that is wrong for you to playing gambling. It is no problem if you don't know anything about gambling because playing gambling or not is just a choice. People are free to decide which will they choose, while other people cannot force them to play gambling. Perhaps, you need to try to say no for playing gambling from now on if someone asks you to gamble.