Choices: Gamble or Help the poor ?

[ethereumhunter]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

You can bring them "fish" every day to feed them, or you can give them a "fishing rod" so that they can catch the fish themselves.

As long as you bring them "fish" they will have no desire to have a "fishing rod" so in some cases helping them you deprive them of the opportunity to understand that they are capable of more. That's why I think help is needed, but it shouldn't supplant the need for development and the desire to move forward.

We have to teach them how to survive in real life. And by providing a "fishing rod", they can start to look for ways to have money; in the end, if they work hard, they will have money.

Maybe we don't have the heart to see them in trouble and want to help them. But it would be better if we also give them a second chance they haven't had so they can try to find a job that suits them.

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[nullama]

In order to understand the psychology of gamblers, i have decided to come up few questions for discussions, and here is the first one.

Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?

I would say that for a gambler it's probably easier to give money that they won gambling rather than removing part of the allocated gambling money.

Easy comes, easy goes.

[Issa56]

If you are a responsible gambler and moreover a professional gambler, why should stop or quit gambling for a month to give the allocated money to them?
Why we don't change our mind to:

I think if you are a professional gambler or if you are not addicted to gambling, leaving gambling for just one month because you want to help shouldn't be a problem.

"Doing gambling and try to win gambling, then use the profits to give the poor in a certain amount".
So, your plan to help the poor still can happen and you can still do gambling activities during that month.

If you are having this kind of mindset then you are not really ready to help, I once said it before, their is no assurance that you are going to win whenever you are gambling, what if the month is not really a good month for you, what if you are not lucky that month and you endup losing the money you allocated for gambling for the month, then you won't help them.

[_act_]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

The money I am using to gamble are for making fun, just a bit out of my money, so I can sacrifice it to poor people. Giving to poor people is not our responsibility, that is not a lie, but it would give me easy and pleasure to help the poor in need than to gamble, but I have my choice to make. Everybody have their own choice to make about it. Only people I think are not likely to help are those gambling addicts that can even use the money they suppose to use to eat or do something important to gamble.

[Pierre 2]

This type of questions sound nonsensical to me. I mean there are many many poor people in world, especially Africa is still suffering. So we should not enjoy life? Like we should stop gaming just because of it? Obviously not. People can still donate share of their money to poor and use another share to gamble. Its completely up to them. Its not something dark or sinful. People should not stop themselves from having fun in their life. Its bad to make your life miserable on purpose.

[ChiNgadOr]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

A sole responsibility to help one another in time of peace and penury. Gambling is just a game that we could put our money into and play bets with the hope of making profits. In case we met ourselves in this kind of condition, what we need to do is to divide the fund if possible to the person that needed the help and use the remaining fund to go gamble which is very wise and better than ignoring such person that needed the help. Two things is likely to happen to us as a gambler which is we can either gamble with the fund and make profits or gamble with it and lose all the funds.

[madnessteat]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

You can bring them "fish" every day to feed them, or you can give them a "fishing rod" so that they can catch the fish themselves.

As long as you bring them "fish" they will have no desire to have a "fishing rod" so in some cases helping them you deprive them of the opportunity to understand that they are capable of more. That's why I think help is needed, but it shouldn't supplant the need for development and the desire to move forward.

We have to teach them how to survive in real life. And by providing a "fishing rod", they can start to look for ways to have money; in the end, if they work hard, they will have money.

Maybe we don't have the heart to see them in trouble and want to help them. But it would be better if we also give them a second chance they haven't had so they can try to find a job that suits them.

Each of us has a responsibility to think about the well-being of his family and to do everything in our power so that our children do not need anything. Helping poor families is a very good initiative, which I support, but I only help the poor with things because I do not live richly and I need to think about my family. I heard the theory that if we divide the world's wealth equally among each person, then in a few years the poor will be poor again because they do not know how to manage money.

[Bitinity]

Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?

Responsible gamblers are those who can manage their money. They know how much to spend for it, high possibility they also have some funds for other things to spend. If you ask me, I wont spend my gambling funds to help the poor but I'll spend my other funds for them. If I have extra money, why should I choose between one of them. Even if I dont have extra money, I can simply split my gambling funds (50:50) or based on our own will or depends on the need. How if your gambling budget for a month is huge, lets say worth ten/hundred thousand dollar or even million. Will you spend them all to help the poor? Helping is nice, but we also need to be wise on how much to help them.

[bakasabo]

Rather strange question OP asks, and a bit different from topic name is described situation in first post.

Gambling and helping others gives different emotions. Gambling gives joy and euphorbia, helping poor - plus to karma, understanding that you've made a good deed. If we get back to first post, then an addicted gambler most probably wont help poor people, and later wont feel guilty for not doing it. But regular gambler I think will help poor people, conscience and feeling of compassion wont let him just pass that poor person or family.

Personally, I am not a gambler and I would help poor people. Yet again, the poor people I've met are poor because of their past deeds and lifestyle. I am 99% sure they will spend money not on food, but on alcohol. And instead of helping with money, I would rather help physically, give an advice, share experience. As I believe that helping with money not always help, it only solves current or short term problem.

[zaim7413]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

In a simpler context, the poor are people who do not have a job at all and do not have the ability to meet basic needs that are proper for the life of themselves or their families. In general, it is not our responsibility to help the poor or neglected children because they are the responsibility of the state or in other words (the poor and neglected children are cared for by the state).

The government holds full responsibility for them, sustainable handling is needed in the form of policies/programs and empowerment activities as well as facilities to meet needs such as work, health, education and decent housing.

We can only help to the extent of our abilities, sacrificing gambling habits can only be done once or twice, then we also have our own responsibilities to our families and include our own needs.

[arimamib]

If you are a responsible gambler and moreover a professional gambler, why should stop or quit gambling for a month to give the allocated money to them?
Why we don't change our mind to:

I think if you are a professional gambler or if you are not addicted to gambling, leaving gambling for just one month because you want to help shouldn't be a problem.

True, if you are not sincere in helping, it can be considered that those who donated to the poor have lost at the gambling table. I prefer to place myself like them, if I were a poor person I would feel very sad if there was no one to help us. For that reason I prefer to sacrifice my gambling habit to help them. Although helping the poor is not a demand, shouldn't our fellow human beings help each other ?

[Oasisman]

If you are a responsible gambler and moreover a professional gambler, why should stop or quit gambling for a month to give the allocated money to them?
Why we don't change our mind to:

I think if you are a professional gambler or if you are not addicted to gambling, leaving gambling for just one month because you want to help shouldn't be a problem.

True, if you are not sincere in helping, it can be considered that those who donated to the poor have lost at the gambling table.

Well, giving your 1 month allocated money to the poor is not even a sincere help. Helping poor people by giving money is never ever sincere and it's not actually helping them. I've said this before in this thread and I'm gonna say this again coz I noticed a lot of people would willing want to give away their money to HELP the poor people.
When we're talking about sincerity in helping, help them look for a job or a business where they can feed themselves for a lifetime. Don't let them get contented just because someone somehow will give money to them.
Helping poor people and gambling is 2 different things, and I think it is a bad idea if you'd want to put a bridge unto it. Also, if there's someone that's more oblige to help poor people, it is the gambling company that should do it as they generate a lot of money from gamblers. Again, I'm not talking about monetary help, these company might expand their business and they could actually employ those poor people.

[hyudien]

In order to understand the psychology of gamblers, i have decided to come up few questions for discussions, and here is the first one.

Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?

Therefore we need to have proper financial management. Where there are often so-called unexpected funds. For example, in one month we get $500, and there are parts that have been allocated. 10%, 20%, 5% (unexpected funds) and so on. So that the funds for gambling are not disturbed. As for helping people in need, that includes unexpected funds that we can give. Remember to help when our needs are met. The point is to be wise in making decisions about who to give donations. Because considering that there are so many poor people out there in need. Even we ourselves feel we are still lacking and do not feel like affluent people.

[aioc]

In order to understand the psychology of gamblers, i have decided to come up few questions for discussions, and here is the first one.

Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?

If it's very urgent and really an emergency then why not there are times for gambling and a time to do good deeds, you see good deeds go a long long way, and it's only one month and you can always find a way to get money if you have a good job or a business, I can live without gambling for a month because I am not that addicted to gambling that I will let other people suffer in exchange for my gambling activity.

[ethereumhunter]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

You can bring them "fish" every day to feed them, or you can give them a "fishing rod" so that they can catch the fish themselves.

As long as you bring them "fish" they will have no desire to have a "fishing rod" so in some cases helping them you deprive them of the opportunity to understand that they are capable of more. That's why I think help is needed, but it shouldn't supplant the need for development and the desire to move forward.

We have to teach them how to survive in real life. And by providing a "fishing rod", they can start to look for ways to have money; in the end, if they work hard, they will have money.

Maybe we don't have the heart to see them in trouble and want to help them. But it would be better if we also give them a second chance they haven't had so they can try to find a job that suits them.

Each of us has a responsibility to think about the well-being of his family and to do everything in our power so that our children do not need anything. Helping poor families is a very good initiative, which I support, but I only help the poor with things because I do not live richly and I need to think about my family. I heard the theory that if we divide the world's wealth equally among each person, then in a few years the poor will be poor again because they do not know how to manage money.

It's true that we are responsible for our families and do anything for our families and I'm sure every parent will try their best for their children. And if we look at this, we as social beings are expected to be able to help the family so that they can fulfill their needs from what they do and what we give to them. But the poor will not always be poor, especially for their children, because surely their descendants will want to change their fate and usually work hard to achieve their dreams.

[ultrloa]

It is not our responsibility to help the poor but we can do it voluntarily out of love. If it is necessary to help a poor family, then I will sacrifice my one-month gambling habit to help them. I could stand and continue with life even without gambling but it will be hard for me to see a family who is suffering because of poverty. That will not solve their problem but it could ease their suffering.

You can bring them "fish" every day to feed them, or you can give them a "fishing rod" so that they can catch the fish themselves.

As long as you bring them "fish" they will have no desire to have a "fishing rod" so in some cases helping them you deprive them of the opportunity to understand that they are capable of more. That's why I think help is needed, but it shouldn't supplant the need for development and the desire to move forward.

We have to teach them how to survive in real life. And by providing a "fishing rod", they can start to look for ways to have money; in the end, if they work hard, they will have money.

Maybe we don't have the heart to see them in trouble and want to help them. But it would be better if we also give them a second chance they haven't had so they can try to find a job that suits them.

Each of us has a responsibility to think about the well-being of his family and to do everything in our power so that our children do not need anything. Helping poor families is a very good initiative, which I support, but I only help the poor with things because I do not live richly and I need to think about my family. I heard the theory that if we divide the world's wealth equally among each person, then in a few years the poor will be poor again because they do not know how to manage money.

It's true that we are responsible for our families and do anything for our families and I'm sure every parent will try their best for their children. And if we look at this, we as social beings are expected to be able to help the family so that they can fulfill their needs from what they do and what we give to them. But the poor will not always be poor, especially for their children, because surely their descendants will want to change their fate and usually work hard to achieve their dreams.

And parents need to show or teach their childrens on how they can survive on cruel world and find better opportunities to their selves without seeking for help by anyone or by the government. If parents can teach them to became self sustaining then plus they got proper education for sure they will not became poor and can escape from this state. For gambling issue its up for them to decide if they want to enjoy this since they are the one who can decide for what they like to do.

[romero121]

In order to understand the psychology of gamblers, i have decided to come up few questions for discussions, and here is the first one.

Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?

If it's very urgent and really an emergency then why not there are times for gambling and a time to do good deeds, you see good deeds go a long long way, and it's only one month and you can always find a way to get money if you have a good job or a business, I can live without gambling for a month because I am not that addicted to gambling that I will let other people suffer in exchange for my gambling activity.

Everyone have the same thought, but when it comes to reality we don't do it. We won't mind losing on gambling, but we find it hard to support a person in need. I remember few threads that have been created to support the flood affected countries. Very few have contributed to it. Even I didn't support, but for the past few weeks I've lost my payments gambling. If we all can support with a week's payment that could've made a big change. So, reality and discussion completely differs.

[jakelyson]

Everyone have the same thought, but when it comes to reality we don't do it. We won't mind losing on gambling, but we find it hard to support a person in need. I remember few threads that have been created to support the flood affected countries. Very few have contributed to it. Even I didn't support, but for the past few weeks I've lost my payments gambling. If we all can support with a week's payment that could've made a big change. So, reality and discussion completely differs.

I thought that since we are all anonymous here, we will be more open and honest in discussions. But I think it is not true then.

And parents need to show or teach their childrens on how they can survive on cruel world and find better opportunities to their selves without seeking for help by anyone or by the government. If parents can teach them to became self sustaining then plus they got proper education for sure they will not became poor and can escape from this state. For gambling issue its up for them to decide if they want to enjoy this since they are the one who can decide for what they like to do.

In a perfect world, that is possible because every parent would be responsible and well prepared to guide their children. But we are not in a perfect world. More and more are becoming parents without knowledge to raise their children or be prepared to even become parents.

[Apocollapse]

If there's many poor people around me, I will reduce my gambling activity, but I didn't stop to gamble because it's already become a part of my life. I think it's fair enough since I wouldn't donate if I think it's too much for me.

Everyone have the same thought, but when it comes to reality we don't do it. We won't mind losing on gambling, but we find it hard to support a person in need. I remember few threads that have been created to support the flood affected countries. Very few have contributed to it. Even I didn't support, but for the past few weeks I've lost my payments gambling. If we all can support with a week's payment that could've made a big change. So, reality and discussion completely differs.

Not all users who donating will publicize himself if he's the one who donate x Bitcoin since most of rich users are really have high privacy concern. If you're the one who find hard to support a poor people, you can't judge other people will have same mindset like you because you only know the surface.

[rhomelmabini]

If it's very urgent and really an emergency then why not there are times for gambling and a time to do good deeds, you see good deeds go a long long way, and it's only one month and you can always find a way to get money if you have a good job or a business, I can live without gambling for a month because I am not that addicted to gambling that I will let other people suffer in exchange for my gambling activity.

That's the point but I think for gambling fanatics or let's put it to "regulars" that's not their way of thinking. They'll for sure leave some for their gambling, but way worse if the person asking for help really need it right away and haven't got a little. Bless are those who have the same mindset as you ser!