Is gambling bad to the society?

[mirakal]

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 Secondly what are the social problem caused by gambling?
(1) Depression and suicide
(2) bankruptcy, family-break up
(3) domestic abuse
(4) assault, fraud
(5) theft, and even homeless
Addiction to gambling is link to a range of serious personal and social harm such as those things I mentioned. These effects can be devastating to the individual as well as their friends, family, workplaces and community.
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gambling is entertainment and this is the reason why quite a lot of developed countries have legalized gambling, but the negative effect that can result when gambling too often is addiction, so for those who cannot manage their emotions, gambling is a nightmare trap, but for those who really can manage their emotions and manage their money well, gambling is the best entertainment that can really relieve fatigue, especially when you get the jackpot, so gambling is bad for only a few groups of people.

This is the reason why gambling can’t be totally banned because aside that the country is making a regular income from it, some good and responsible gamblers end up lucky and win big amount and make a good earning. But for those who gamble irresponsibly and mismanage their funds due to greed for money, they end up messing up their money and lose all of them and turn homeless. So it’s not actually gambling the cause of life’s destruction, but it’s certainly the wrong motivation and wrong thinking of individual gamblers towards gambling.

[Moreno233]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

[2Pizza410000BTC]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

While you and I see gambling as good, there are many countries that do not see gambling as good, and my country may be one of them. Gambling is completely illegal in my country, if any person from this country gambles, if the government comes to know about him, administrative action will be taken against him. Also, if gambling is done from my country, and if the people of my society come to know about it, the people of my society will also consider the gambling person as bad considering. But one of the reasons why my country and my society consider gambling as bad is that my country is a less developed country and most of the people in this country are daily wage earners. Now if gambling is legalized in this country, people will ruin their career and family by gambling. However, in countries where gambling is legal, gambling is not seen as bad, gambling is considered good.

[Yogee]

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So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

I think there will always be people who say things that are politically correct but never follows it. I can resort to gambling as a means to earn something on the side or I could treat it as a hobby. My personal take on this is that you shouldn't tell people what to do with their money since you don't know how they handle it. People can gamble if they want to as long as they are responsible.

[LogitechMouse]

Re: Is gambling bad to the society?

Gambling is only bad when gamblers are doing anything that may harm other people. I mean there are some gamblers out there that are losing money in gambling and yet, they aren't doing bad things around them. Nobody's affected when they lose money aside from themselves. At the end of the day, we can't just eradicate these casinos because they are paying tax to the government. It's up to us gamblers on how we will react whenever we experience loss or wins.

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So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

Gambling as a hobby? For most, they shouldn't but there are some who are doing it because they afford to do it.
Earn to make a living? There are some gamblers who are doing it because... why not? I mean if they know that they can make money off of it then why would they not do it?

As much as I want to criticize gambling because of its negative effects, there's nothing we can do about it and it's our decision if we will gamble or not.

[sunsilk]

If I give my own opinion about this then gambling will not bad thing until the people makes it bad by themselves like use gambling instead of entertainment they play it for their greed to earn money to get quick rich and as well as some addicted people's make is bad in society.

It looks bad when a gambler doesn't have good results as per their gambling activities. This depends on the gambler on how it reflects to his attitude towards the results, if he's too aggressive every time he's on a losing streak then that's something to be considered because that's seriously bad to the society.

For someone who gambles for the money, it's very unlikely that it's always a good day. So, you are bringing yourself to that part where you should be careful on how to show your emotions when you are having a bad day.

If gambling is literally bad to the society, it's because of the mental aspect that it gives when you're mostly losing at all times.

Economically, it isn't bad because huge taxes are on it and the government benefits from it.

[DaNNy001]

I have never seen a society where gambling is listed among the things harming the society. Gambling is an age-long business that have experience various transformations to make it more accessible and easier to win. There is risk in gambling just like it is with every other business, so why will gambling be bad to the society?

I know that some people do so many bad things in order to gamble or exhibit some bad character due to negative experience in gambling such as losses, those are the people called gambling addicts. Gambling create addicts that also send bad signal about gambling but the truth is that addicts are in minority. This does not warrant conclusion that gambling affect the society bad

Wow 😳 so you mean you haven't heard of the Arab communities? Not to sound too direct but I bet I could place my fingers that some of those communities in the Arab world formally restricts gambling tagging it as a violation against the ethics of a good life itself. And again there is this country i saw a research about with the name Turkmenistan which seems to have a lot of restricted activities of which I guess gambling is also part of, even as the world is evolving into a computer age that virtually almost everything is done online the roots of some cultural beliefs still prohibits gamble seeing it as something bad. North Korea would be another example of such places that see gambling as some vile event or habit.

[Hispo]

I would rather to see gambling as its effects on the macroeconomics of a country to define it is something go or bad for the country or not. If we started to debate on whether gambling is good or bad from a personal and individual point of view, then inevitably we will stumble upon very negative stories on how gambling have both destroyed lives and a few stories of success on how gambling have helped some some people to reach their dreams and achieve whatever they wanted to do with their lives.  It is a very bi-polwr discussion to have.

In terms of macroeconomics, I believe gambling could be good when comes to taxation and the collection of revenue for the state, and the use of that money to improve the live of the average person in the nation. Nonetheless, thwre have been instances here in Latin America, in which certain presidents tried to outlaw casinos and gambling out of their ideological views and not paying attention to the liberties of the people or the free market. It was quite a dry era for the country, in the eyes of those you loved to partake in casino games.

To me, gambling is neutral, long history short.

[Nrcewker]

So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

Mark my words, you can’t make a living out of gambling. Gambling is a process where you take risk to make some money in shorter span of time. Here there is huge uncertainty that you can’t make money. When you don’t have a fixed source of income from a particular thing, how can you make a living from it? The reason for which the society looks at gambling in very rude manner is that, due to gambling many people become addicts, they don’t save any money and often seen showing bad attitude to their family members, hence people don’t like gambling.

[CODE200]

Those stuff that you've mentioned that could be the cause of gambling isn't necessarily the root cause of it, maybe it was one of the triggers but wouldn't the person already be like that and it was just laying dormant until the obsession or addiction to gambling started to make that dormant trait an active one. Also, gambling is a business, it's not good or bad, the reason that it's bad is because the intentions around it by the people that are building these businesses is bad or ill-intent, they want to capitalize on the need of many people to quickly change their lives and they presented an opportunity albeit in a way that's favorable to them, it's business after all.

[Yamifoud]

Not totally, but it is bad for those who are not able to manage their gambling behavior.
But of course, the government should also impose strict restrictions to avoid those issues OP. Because if we think it is bad in general, the government doesn't allow them to operate but they are which means it is still acceptable. What went wrong was the gambling approach and the lack of rule implementation. Gambling owners don't mind the welfare of the people but instead, they took advantage of the situation.
Well, this is business plus corrupt government officials were too blind not to see what really happened.

[wxa7115]

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So what I'm trying to conclude is that gambling isn't something you should take as a hobby or as a means of earning just to make a living. So what are your thoughts?

You are only concentrating on the negative aspects of gambling, gambling is a massive industry all over the world that generates huge profits, not only that, due to the sin taxes, governments keep most of those profits for themselves without the need to engage on the business at all.

Casinos also generate a lot of jobs and create a great deal of economic activity, especially since the pandemic began, so while gambling can indeed cause some people to lose way more money than what they can afford, the benefits it bring to society are not small at all.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Gambling is primarily for entertainment. Regular gaming, perceived as a duty or necessity, will naturally lead to addiction. However, this is not necessary. It all depends on the psychological state of the person. If the nervous system is healthy and there have been no head injuries, the brain will work in the right direction, realizing what gambling-related games can lead to.
As a result, we can say that there is no evil in gambling; the problem will always depend on the person.

[angrybirdy]

Not totally, but it is bad for those who are not able to manage their gambling behavior.
But of course, the government should also impose strict restrictions to avoid those issues OP. Because if we think it is bad in general, the government doesn't allow them to operate but they are which means it is still acceptable. What went wrong was the gambling approach and the lack of rule implementation. Gambling owners don't mind the welfare of the people but instead, they took advantage of the situation.
Well, this is business plus corrupt government officials were too blind not to see what really happened.

Agree, gambling only becomes bad if we can no longer manage our time and spending habits, especially if we neglect other things because our attention is focused on gambling. It is also true that other casino/gambling owners do not care if their clients or players change their behavior or what, the only thing important to them is the money and they will not stop people from gambling with them because the goal they are bringing a lot of money into their business. It's like that when it comes to business, humanity and communication with other people is lost because everything revolves around money, power and fame.

[Obim34]

I'm not in the support of the government placing a restriction on gambling, we deserve to choose what we do and what we want, have we taught what will be the fun of only watching football matches alone with no betting, it's a lot of fun to do both together. People are now getting much addicted, some taking it as their source of earning and far more reason why certain restrictions are placed in some countries because of the repercussions could be severe. In as much, I believe everyone is entitled to their decision, whether to become addicted or not, as long as we do not prioritise gambling as a source of earning then on how much consistent we find ourselves gambling we never get addicted.

[Ojinga]

This is why we do have those regulations on which the government is setting it up specially into these kind of businesses or platforms on which they would really be needing up to follow.
Gambling businesses arent that bad.Why? You arent that forced to play or go into their vicinity and play yourself which it is really just that absurd on having that kind of thinking.
Whats the wrong thing on here is on what people are really that trying to do on which they do mess up their lives because of the wrong decisions they are making. We do know that human beings are really that
loving on pointing out their fingers and blaming others or even the government on what happened into their lives without even trying to look on what are the things that they have done.

Government would really be seeing these business to be a good source of revenue or taxes considering on how they do generate big in this regard. They would really be continuing
on operating because they do know that they could really be able to get that kind of benefit on which this is something that in connects about economical approach.
This is where people will really be that needing to be careful on what are the things that they are dealing with and not really just that putting up all the blame just because they had messed up their lives.

the government can't see gambling business as a good source because people are over abusing it, mostly now their are some people who are going to much extremely far by gambling and also the younger ones, are also doing what the government are supposed to put restrictions towards gambling business to the society. I'm not saying gambling is is bad thing but those people who are addicted are the ones making it look as if it's crime, we all know how the economy is now and gambling is also helping some people sustaining some families now and in the other bad side why people are pointing a blame of gambling is the bad side of it. And this are the effects of it I know most people are experiencing this in the society.

[danherbias07]

Dude, that's long.

I get the point though and I actually experienced most of them. Just recently, I have been playing slots on this gambling site that I found here in the forum which accepts our own local currency and I spent like $20 on it. I was shocked at how fast my money was diminishing in my wallet even though I was betting at the very lowest possible amount at every round. It stressed me out and I got frustrated that I was not even getting a bonus round in like 2000 rounds.
I was so frustrated that I said to myself I would deposit $10 more then I would be gone if I could not grow it to $30, just the amount to return my losses. Sadly, it took everything from me and I never went back to that gambling site.
All we need is control and we cannot blame the system if it keeps on eating our money, it's business, not a charity. Everything is up to us if we want to stop. If it is stressing us out, get out, and don't play. That way you will have peace of mind that you won't be losing anything.

[_act_]

I think there will always be people who say things that are politically correct but never follows it. I can resort to gambling as a means to earn something on the side or I could treat it as a hobby. My personal take on this is that you shouldn't tell people what to do with their money since you don't know how they handle it. People can gamble if they want to as long as they are responsible.

What that happened to people like the OP is that I believe he has been addicted to gambling before and that makes him to detest gambling after he was able to overcome the addiction. People like them are the ones that will always tell people to quit gambling but forgot to know that there are many gamblers that are not addicted. Some people just gamble for fun.

[harapan]

So with all this I think if they put an restrictions on gambling it's not a bad idea at all

Putting restriction on gambling or gambling ban is just nothing more than making people not to have freedom. What the government should look after is for people not to harm others. We are in the world that people are exposed to gambling, they should educate themselves on how to make fun and entertainment from gambling and not turn it to a way of looking for income.

Yeah I agree to this, putting restrictions will only make things work as the range of violence just for the sake to keep gambling going will be increased more,just look at now that gambling isn't ban and people tend to fight, cause havoc, steal and do all sorts just for gambling so imagine this is taken away entirely,they will definitely create a nuisance to the society and their community,so this is where I concur to the fact that the government should look for a better means to educate  the individuals on what to do order than placing restrictions for gambling.

[pinggoki]

I don't think that it is, in my opinion gambling is just a game where it involves you risking something to gain something more valuable than you'll ever deserve. Unless we make gambling as the core of our society, that's probably the only time that it will become a problem and I don't think that it will ever come to that point in the near future, it's just a business thing at the end of the day, no reason to be too much a stickler when it comes to this kind of thing, some people are more ambitious than you and so they build these casino empires to satisfy their hunger for easy money, maybe it looks bad but I don't think that it's going to be a big bane to our society, if we let it then probably we're going to end up saying this but it's the people that will decide this kind of thing at the end of the day.