Sometimes betting is just ridiculous. Sometimes it is complete nonsense.

[avp2306]

I find it inappropriate to offer a betting option on the winner of a war; it's just edited, and the screenshot isn't even clear. Regarding other betting options, such as elections, Oscar winners, or music event winners, I don't see anything wrong with that, as people enjoy betting on various events.

What I believe is that a regulated casino won't joke around on serious matters, especially those that involve the lives of many.

I don't think this is appropriate to do, it is not everything that must involve gambling.  War is not a game,  it is a critical event when people are really hurt and going through difficult time irrespective of the country that is leading in the war. I think casino starts playing bet on war it can make the fight to be even worse because people from the countries where the war is taking place may just want to join the fight just to make profit from their bets, I don't think war should be something anybody will be involve of, war should be a situation that people should pray for peace to put a stop to it.

And its not good idea to have since it will just promote violence since its like supporting a war that's why gambling sites should not ever think to add this betting option since its inhumane. There's so many options to bet and I don't think a casino will get a support for doing this. Also if they add that for sure they will be bash or get a negative comments coming from various group of people and accuse that they just want to create money from war while other people is suffering. Also there's no dumb casino owners will add that since this is really bad for their business knowing many will always take sympathy on the victims of those wars. People should really pray for peace and don't think about placing a bet in favor on one country and want to destroy their opponent so that they could win since its really bad to take.

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[Gozie51]

It is really absurd to see the length at which people could go because of business and making money. To me, it is a wrong trajectory and to be condemned. The significant of such if allowed is that people concerned or people that are influential to stop the war might not work towards that anymore.

We already know that those countries that dwell in arm production, it is a business time for them when countries go into war, now adding war option in betting will even make seize fire difficult because influential people are interested to gamble how many people will die in a day, weeks or months or from which side such death will occur or which side is stronger than the other.

This is not a good betting option for the sake of humanity, I thought the believe that betting is for entertainment is still flying, war is only entertainment when you watch the friction part of it from your TV or smartphone. Hope we are not going to hear winter death in Canada, Russia etc in betting option as well.

[Kelvinid]

If this happens, I think this is a game of rich gamblers or to make it short a leaders game. Fake or not, I don't think gamblers care about anything as long as they can place a bet on something they will surely jump-in just like national elections, animal fights and other inhumane gambling activities. All of it are inappropriate and should be penalized by law.

Then from now on, they should know how to take care of their bets otherwise, they are making gambling nonsense.
We don't need to wait for the government to take action against these unusual betting behaviors. We have to show respect and become a professional gambler. Because we know that it was not appropriate in the first place but why do we have to continue betting? It was just like fooling ourselves and claiming innocence even though we know about it.

[danherbias07]

People can be creepy at times, I am sure that these gamblers betting on war are rich people, my grand father once told me that when the rich people have everything life gets boring for them and they look for crazy ways to get entertained, even if its inappropriate.

I can never place bet something that has to do with losing lives, it is so inappropriate and if I have the power I will get such platform closed down, I am not surprised though, there are too many creepy people living in the world today.

I feel pity for those who are caught in this ongoing war, they can't even flee their country into another, everyday people are losing their lives in both country, it is very sad and disheartening.

So true. Possibly, they are rich people who have nothing good to do. What kind of normal human being would think about making a bet about war?
I have not experienced any war in my life but just looking at photos and videos of those who are experiencing it makes me feel sad about it. I mean just simple fireworks can already make me stand in my seat, what more if those are real bombs dropping near your place?  
It would not even cross my mind to make it like an entertaining thing like betting on who will win because I know for myself that there are really no winners in war. Both countries or parties are just wasting resources and killing the innocent in the process. Then, there's the economy falling for both countries too and the only people affected by it are those who are in the lower section of lifestyle. They will be the ones working their ass to survive that tragedy.
This should not even be a joke because it's not funny, it's more sad to think there will be people who could even think about this.

[AnonBitCoiner]

I don't think this is appropriate to do, it is not everything that must involve gambling.  War is not a game,  it is a critical event when people are really hurt and going through difficult time irrespective of the country that is leading in the war. I think casino starts playing bet on war it can make the fight to be even worse because people from the countries where the war is taking place may just want to join the fight just to make profit from their bets, I don't think war should be something anybody will be involve of, war should be a situation that people should pray for peace to put a stop to it.

Individuals who set bet for war are those who never think about others but are in rush to earn more and more money. They don't realize that money is not everything as we can live without money but we cannot live without peacefulness. During war everyone is in stress as war have negative impacts on every country all around the world. import and export system become disturbed due to which there are big loss for every country.

We should not involve in any activity during war situations that will hurt others because everyone is suffering from different types of issues so we should try to reduces other's worries instead of setting bet that which country will win the war. War is not for gambling therefore do everything for county's security and peacefulness what you can do.

[Gozie51]

Betting on war? How can bookies be providing service for their customers to be betting on war. Betting on who to win election, who to be the next miss world and something entertaining is better, but betting on war is just not appropriate and not entertaining at all. But people are people, they like to be full of something surprising.

First of, hope you do actually realize that the image was just Photoshoped and not actually real. And yeah it would be the most ridiculous thing of bookies and casinos were to make available options for player to bet on war, lol, I have never heard of anything like this and it sound kinda funny that someone's mind could even conceive such an idea. Indeed people are full of surprises lol

Imagination of the mind can go beyond the expected and that is what is happening in the world of business that many want to be smarter . The idea of war as betting option is ridiculous whether it was photoshopped or reality. To conceive the idea of other games will be appreciated but to use the current war as betting is not kind to humanity. We can have animated wars  but not real and ongoing wars.

[Outhue]

With the risks that comes with gambling is why people must first learn to gamble responsibly, lives are getting destroyed because of irresponsible gambling and some are completely addicted with no fix solution to make them get out of their addiction, a brother in my family got addicted and it was a tough battle for his to escape that reality, it got to a point where his parent almost disowned him, I am happy he got over it and now he learned his lesson.

Accept gambling for what it is, it's a quick way of making money and any quick way of making money even outside of gambling comes with huge risks, there is high probability that you will throw your money away, that's why you need to be prepared, don't be too greedy when gambling, risk only what you can afford to Lose.

Gambling isn't something you should be spending all your time and energy on, find something useful for yourself and others, a man of skills will never go broke as his level of skills will be needed and so money will follow, we can't say the same with gambling, all gamblers are in the dark, crawling on the ground trying to find their way out.

[jaberwock]

If I'm not mistaken previously there was a casino that provided bets on the pandemic how many would die and so on, the good thing was it was a new gambling site so it didn't get enough attention and now the gambling site has died without leaving a trace and is actually betting on tragedy humanity is unreasonable, and casinos should never provide that even if there is a request, and if there is a casino that does that, it is better to leave the casino or not bet at all because taking advantage of human tragedies such as war is very inhumane.

Damn really? But, indeed that was brutal already, even though their only intention is to make money and nothing else. During the Covid, there is also crypto coin projects which are like that. And it was also being talked about here in the forum. People should boycott that, even if it's only like a meme coin and them (investors) can also benefit on it once it pump.

There are still lots of ways to make money without the need of stepping down other people. And we can feel better about them. Anyway about the casino you're talking about earlier. I hope that wasn't futurr or futtr. Sorry I forgot its name, but they are also offering unusual bets and many people love them for this.

[Zoomic]

There are still lots of ways to make money without the need of stepping down other people. And we can feel better about them.

Gamblers who mean business will gambler on anything at all, war and pandemics inclusive. They keep their emotions aside and are not concerned about the possible implications of their bets or what pain the next person is facing. Casinos too will jump on any trend and give their customers variety of options to gamble on. To them, it is for the money or fun and no strings attached.

This is so inhumane and ridiculous.  One can actually make money and have fun without necessarily gambling on sensitive global issues like war. No one likes war, why make money and get entertainment from other people's predicament, especially in a period where the world is craving for peace? I do no know how casinos and other gambling platforms are being regulated but sensitive issues need to be off their list of gambling options.

[piebeyb]

We should not involve in any activity during war situations that will hurt others because everyone is suffering from different types of issues so we should try to reduces other's worries instead of setting bet that which country will win the war. War is not for gambling therefore do everything for county's security and peacefulness what you can do.

Therefore the OP explained again that it was just a joke, not a real bet, the bet was just an illustration of how people responded in this thread, were they crazy enough for bets like that? It seems that many people don't like bets like that. because no one wants war, let alone the many victims who fall while we gamble on the suffering of the victims. it looked so inhuman that it even surpassed that of a demon.

I'm sure not many people will want to be involved in betting on war bets because in my opinion it is better to give the money to help war victims than to bet on the war that is taking place. The point is that there are still many bets that are more humane and reasonable to bet on, for example sports betting and betting. other.

[uneng]

Even though that picture is fake and sportsbooks don't offer this possibility of bet officially, it would be naivety to think it's not happening on the deep-web and minor circles of gamblers. People bet on everything, so why wouldn't them bet on war results? It involves a mix of gambling, war and butchery interests. There are people who are fully into these matters in a daily basis, and know every details about military troops, strategies, weapons, vehicles, military technology, added to a fascination for carnage, where they might see an opportunity to show their colleagues, who also enjoy the same "hobbies", how smart they are on their predictions by gambling and profiting from the results. We can conclude it's a clear sign humans are losing their humanity.

[Marvelman]

I get that gambling sites wanna make bank, but making bets on stuff like war and pandemics just ain't right.  Real people are going through hell with lost lives and homes and families.  The last thing they need is strangers placing wagers on their pain.  It's mad insensitive and straight up profiting off suffering and   

now I know these platforms gotta get their paper and keep the lights on.  But there's lines you dont cross. Cashing in on folks' tears is way past the line.  They gotta think more about how it impacts people and say nah to taking bets on messed up situations.

[Saint-loup]

It's an obvious fake impersonating the UI of Stake but some decentralized prediction markets like Augur or Fairlay are well known for offering unethical bets on some events. During the covid19 pandemic for example, some of those platforms along with some sportsbooks offered bets on the death toll of the pandemic. It led to a passionate debate here on the opportunity of this kind of bet and their consequences for bettors.
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