Is gambling bad to the society?

[Docnaster]

There are different societies from place to place, some societies consider gambling as a normal activity while there are some areas where gambling is considered a criminal act and people in those societies do not look favorably on gamblers. Especially in Muslim countries, gambling is criminalized and those who gamble are punished by law. Gamblers in those societies are frowned upon by the people of the society and try to avoid them at all times. But apart from these, all the other countries that have allowed direct gambling have many physical casinos in their country where people can conduct all the gambling activities.

Your submission about the subject matter aligns with mine if you ask me. Some societal beliefs forbids gambling while others do not see it as a bad engagement which is why to some people, gambling is a bad thing to do while to others it's a normal thing that can be engaged by anyone. So as individuals from different societal beliefs, we should consider gambling a bad habit when it's condemned by our immediate societal or religious belief and as well engage in it responsibly when it's accepted by our immediate societal and religious belief.
Whichever way we want to look at gambling, it is a bad habit that can negatively affect others if we fail to gamble with caution.

[uchegod-21]

I have read a post in this forum where someone was trying to capture the advantages of gambling to the society. I read carefully to understand the advantages and it seems I was disappointed in the end. I saw reasons like;
Gambling Helps us to have fun;
And the rest bla bla of a thing. So, the menace gambling has caused the society is large and cannot match the purported good they are talking about.

[lienfaye]

I have read a post in this forum where someone was trying to capture the advantages of gambling to the society. I read carefully to understand the advantages and it seems I was disappointed in the end. I saw reasons like;
Gambling Helps us to have fun;
And the rest bla bla of a thing. So, the menace gambling has caused the society is large and cannot match the purported good they are talking about.

Well, the gambler itself is the one responsible if they want gambling to influence them negatively/positively. It's just that, majority are not a discipline gambler resulting to addiction. The reason why gambling is seeing by society as bad due to its effect to the players who are not able to control themselves. And we know people around are also affected if their relative is addicted. Family problems, crimes, physical and mental issues are also present.

[nelson4lov]

I have read a post in this forum where someone was trying to capture the advantages of gambling to the society. I read carefully to understand the advantages and it seems I was disappointed in the end. I saw reasons like;
Gambling Helps us to have fun;
And the rest bla bla of a thing. So, the menace gambling has caused the society is large and cannot match the purported good they are talking about.

Yup. As much as gambling is bad, it still has some good sides especially if 1 out of every 100-1000 gamblers make life changing money. Gambling is actually a zero sum game but on steroids. This means, it can be a make or break moment for you but won't find out. I won't say the net outcome for gambling is net negative because despite all of its bad sides, gambling has change some lies. Now, that's a fact we all can't deny. Btw, The fun part is actually just a bonus. You can make /loss money but have fun doing so
 

[Hispo]

I have read a post in this forum where someone was trying to capture the advantages of gambling to the society. I read carefully to understand the advantages and it seems I was disappointed in the end. I saw reasons like;
Gambling Helps us to have fun;
And the rest bla bla of a thing. So, the menace gambling has caused the society is large and cannot match the purported good they are talking about.

Yup. As much as gambling is bad, it still has some good sides especially if 1 out of every 100-1000 gamblers make life changing money. Gambling is actually a zero sum game but on steroids. This means, it can be a make or break moment for you but won't find out. I won't say the net outcome for gambling is net negative because despite all of its bad sides, gambling has change some lies. Now, that's a fact we all can't deny. Btw, The fun part is actually just a bonus. You can make /loss money but have fun doing so
 

A sum zero games when you keep gamblers enclosed and their money, however gambling is also an industry with tends to go along with other ones like tourism and traveling. Las Vegas is a good example of it, if your enclosed environment is Las Vegas, then there is a net accumulation of capital in the city coming from the outside, money coming from losing gamblers and tourists who are responsible enough not to go crazy and lose more than they can afford to lose. Their money is used to pay for the salaries and benefits of employees and staffers.

So, while there are obvios downsides coming from gambling onto society as a whole, it is also true there are actual jobs being maintained thanks to such industry.

[Accardo]

Right , people are usually attracted to gambling for two reasons.  Although people are attracted to gambling for entertainment, the number of such gamblers is very low. People are mostly attracted to gambling for money and in this case they do not give any importance to judge the good and bad of the society. Some bad natured gamblers have a bad effect on the society especially some bad natured gamblers do not hesitate to do bad things like hijacking and theft along with violence against women to manage gambling money.

Highlighting the term to manage gambling money, in what essence? Were you trying to say that they do all that to get gambling money? It's pretty considerate to view the latter as the proper term because all those illicit actions you mentioned can't manage gambling money. Instead, it'll get the player into trouble and a long-term financial brokenness. Such gamblers are already addicted and can't survive a day without gambling. And for this, they'll go a long way to make life unconducive for people in their environment, which does not positively promote gambling.

[Republikcoin.com]

Well, the gambler itself is the one responsible if they want gambling to influence them negatively/positively. It's just that, majority are not a discipline gambler resulting to addiction. The reason why gambling is seeing by society as bad due to its effect to the players who are not able to control themselves. And we know people around are also affected if their relative is addicted. Family problems, crimes, physical and mental issues are also present.

All the problems you said are caused by people who are not disciplined in gambling and I also really agree with that because every bad trigger certainly comes from ourselves, not from what we wear or use to trigger problems such as addiction in something. Because when someone who is not disciplined works in another place, he will not achieve success so he cannot blame the place he works but must blame himself. Likewise with things related to gambling because this also requires extra discipline from each player.

[Orpichukwu]

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

Just the same way those who use Bitcoin make it appear as an illegal means of payment, the kind of view and idea people will have about a particular thing is based on how the people who make use of that thing handle it around that area with the high rate of gambling addiction among some youths. Anyone who stays close to such an area and doesn't take the chance to do their own research will believe without doubt that everything about gambling can't have a positive impact.

[uchegod-21]

I have read a post in this forum where someone was trying to capture the advantages of gambling to the society. I read carefully to understand the advantages and it seems I was disappointed in the end. I saw reasons like;
Gambling Helps us to have fun;
And the rest bla bla of a thing. So, the menace gambling has caused the society is large and cannot match the purported good they are talking about.

Yup. As much as gambling is bad, it still has some good sides especially if 1 out of every 100-1000 gamblers make life changing money.

...I won't say the net outcome for gambling is net negative because despite all of its bad sides, gambling has change some lies lives.
 

Mate, I have to disagree with you because you approached the matter in perspective aspect and not wholistic. What do I mean? You alleged that gambling had made some people break through poverty. This is true and not whole true. In order to determine the overall impact of gambling, you have to compare the number of people gambling has made to be poor and the number of people it lifted from poverty.

If there's any data available for this, I'll like to have it posted here. Gambling has made more people poor, depressed, turn criminals etc than it has made people rich. So we judge from the overall performance if gambling and not from the success of a few people.

[nelson4lov]

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Mate, I have to disagree with you because you approached the matter in perspective aspect and not wholistic. What do I mean? You alleged that gambling had made some people break through poverty. This is true and not whole true. In order to determine the overall impact of gambling, you have to compare the number of people gambling has made to be poor and the number of people it lifted from poverty.

If there's any data available for this, I'll like to have it posted here. Gambling has made more people poor, depressed, turn criminals etc than it has made people rich. So we judge from the overall performance if gambling and not from the success of a few people.

Oh. I think I got misunderstood. The point I was trying to make was that gambling is not a net-negative event. It's similar to every other endeavors in life. I will explain.

Even in trading, it is a zero-sum game where one person wins when another losses. Now, do we say that trading is a terrible venture or that it is net-negative? No.

Another instance, in any career, there are also winners and losers only difference is that you don't lose your money but time invested for the endeavor.

Most people on this thread have successfully painted gambling as a grave offense that nobody should take part in but that's not the case actually. Everything that gambling is about, is widely talked about — it's a high-risk, high-reward venture.

[Huppercase]

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

I think that before we can assumed that something is bad, numbers must be taken into consideration. If you look deeply into gambling business, it's not like people are not winning, they are but when you look at the number of people that are losing money and people that are making money from gambling, the gap is very wide and large but the funny thing is that despite these numbers, gamblers don't care because the addiction involves is very terrible.

Gambling addiction is just like any other addiction out there that many people are struggling to beat but when you remove money from it, there is fun in it but do you think people will even play gambling when money is removed completely from gambling, people wouldn't turn out and even the companies will cease to exist even if they are been paid by the governments.

[Wakate]

There are different societies from place to place, some societies consider gambling as a normal activity while there are some areas where gambling is considered a criminal act and people in those societies do not look favorably on gamblers. Especially in Muslim countries, gambling is criminalized and those who gamble are punished by law. Gamblers in those societies are frowned upon by the people of the society and try to avoid them at all times. But apart from these, all the other countries that have allowed direct gambling have many physical casinos in their country where people can conduct all the gambling activities.

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

I totally agree with, gambling depend on what you want to believe it as. Most people who are disciplined in their gambling would tell you gamble is fun, whereas others who take it as a source of income and get addicted along the way would say there is no fun in gambling because of the risk and fear of losing the last money left with you. And people like this, are more than those with self discipline who can actually use their Brains to make decisions rather than letting their emotion to make decisions for them. And the society due to the majority of struggling gambles or the bad records of addicted gamblers, they have come with a general conclusion that gambling is bad, but we all know the truth that indiscipline and greed is the cause of those actions .

Getting an addiction is the complicated part of gambling and that is why when bet too often, it can be seen as a bad altitude towards gambling. There are many people that have find themselves in gambling addiction and still battling with it how they could come out of it. If their are too many gamblers who had became addicted to gambling, this could pose a serious threat to the nature how people in such surrounding leaves their lives. There are always advantages and disadvantages to gambling and we don't have to take it too seriously even though that is the major source of income to us.

[Accardo]

Getting an addiction is the complicated part of gambling and that is why when bet too often, it can be seen as a bad altitude towards gambling. There are many people that have find themselves in gambling addiction and still battling with it how they could come out of it. If their are too many gamblers who had became addicted to gambling, this could pose a serious threat to the nature how people in such surrounding leaves their lives. There are always advantages and disadvantages to gambling and we don't have to take it too seriously even though that is the major source of income to us.

An environment or society with lots of gambling addicts will never in a lifetime believe that gambling has an advantage. The behavior of problem gamblers has made people think or accept that gambling is evil for society. Aside from that, gamblers experience severe struggles dealing with addictions; society, their loved ones, and family suffer from the person living with gambling addiction.

Those advantages of gambling are getting erased quickly, as the amount of responsible gamblers is too low compared to compulsive gamblers. Non gamblers can't think of any player who is responsible. 

[LUCKMCFLY]

There are many thoughts that say that it is good or bad, but personally I say that each person has their own way of thinking, their own way of seeing things, the game will always be for those who want it their own way, but conceptually I see that it is not bad, but of course, you have to respect the fact that there are people who have their customs, their religion, their beliefs, all of this is what things are based on for the game, and each thought must be respected, for me that is the basis of everything, even in the debates that form here in these threads.

[Dewi Aries]

I totally agree with, gambling depend on what you want to believe it as. Most people who are disciplined in their gambling would tell you gamble is fun, whereas others who take it as a source of income and get addicted along the way would say there is no fun in gambling because of the risk and fear of losing the last money left with you. And people like this, are more than those with self discipline who can actually use their Brains to make decisions rather than letting their emotion to make decisions for them. And the society due to the majority of struggling gambles or the bad records of addicted gamblers, they have come with a general conclusion that gambling is bad, but we all know the truth that indiscipline and greed is the cause of those actions .

Getting an addiction is the complicated part of gambling and that is why when bet too often, it can be seen as a bad altitude towards gambling. There are many people that have find themselves in gambling addiction and still battling with it how they could come out of it. If their are too many gamblers who had became addicted to gambling, this could pose a serious threat to the nature how people in such surrounding leaves their lives. There are always advantages and disadvantages to gambling and we don't have to take it too seriously even though that is the major source of income to us.

This is why addiction is always a bad phase that we should avoid, I understand that even though you already have a good approach based on the right understanding, it cannot always prevent you from the possibility of falling into addiction unconsciously, but of course by having awareness of the dangers of the risks of addiction by implementing various forms of caution such as a good and balanced approach is indeed much better than not preparing any preventive measures.

On the other hand, as you said, even though we have realized and found that we are addicted, it certainly does not mean that you can get out of the addiction phase in a short time, or what is meant is that even though you are aware of the addiction you are experiencing, you still need a process to eliminate various excessive actions and mindsets towards gambling and that takes a long time.

The increase in the population of gamblers who fall into addiction is a worrying situation, the crime rate can increase and the level of people who end up stressed or committing suicide will also continue to increase, meaning that the impact will not only harm yourself but also others, especially those around us. Although I understand that overall this is the government's job, of course everything must start from the smallest, or I mean at least from ourselves, at least we are not included in the list of people who will eventually become addicted by always maintaining awareness, acknowledging that the risk of addiction can really destroy all aspects of our lives, as well as implementing various actions as a form of caution and prevention.

[nara1892]

There are different societies from place to place, some societies consider gambling as a normal activity while there are some areas where gambling is considered a criminal act and people in those societies do not look favorably on gamblers. Especially in Muslim countries, gambling is criminalized and those who gamble are punished by law. Gamblers in those societies are frowned upon by the people of the society and try to avoid them at all times. But apart from these, all the other countries that have allowed direct gambling have many physical casinos in their country where people can conduct all the gambling activities.

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

The many views of society about the badness of gambling must be fixed even though it seems impossible to happen. Gambling is actually not bad, because in my opinion smart or wise people will not gamble wrongly, meaning when they experience defeat or lose money, they will not continue to gamble. With many people who judge gambling badly because many people are already miserable because of gambling, but if examined again, the misery occurs because they themselves are too excessive in gambling.

People who seek profit like this tend to experience misery because of the feeling of annoyance when they lose, making them unable to accept the defeat so that what they do is gamble again and again because they want to get a win that can cover the losses that have occurred. It is clear that if we think wrongly or gamble wrongly, it can destroy the future, but try to look at the other side, when gambling is done correctly, there will be no bad impacts that will occur.

[junder]

Logically I would say that gambling is not bad for society but gambling only has a bad stigma from most of society and the bad stigma is formed because of gamblers who always try to treat gambling in the wrong way, meaning of course everything will not have too bad an impact if from the start you know how it works, and this applies to anything you do in life.

Therefore from the start in anything, never try anything that you do not know the risks or impacts, I understand that it always takes a trial at the beginning to find out the mistakes and truths, but I think there is no reason that makes sense when we are able to see that other people's experiences can be used as learning materials.

[Tmoonz]

There are different societies from place to place, some societies consider gambling as a normal activity while there are some areas where gambling is considered a criminal act and people in those societies do not look favorably on gamblers. Especially in Muslim countries, gambling is criminalized and those who gamble are punished by law. Gamblers in those societies are frowned upon by the people of the society and try to avoid them at all times. But apart from these, all the other countries that have allowed direct gambling have many physical casinos in their country where people can conduct all the gambling activities.

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

I totally agree with, gambling depend on what you want to believe it as. Most people who are disciplined in their gambling would tell you gamble is fun, whereas others who take it as a source of income and get addicted along the way would say there is no fun in gambling because of the risk and fear of losing the last money left with you. And people like this, are more than those with self discipline who can actually use their Brains to make decisions rather than letting their emotion to make decisions for them. And the society due to the majority of struggling gambles or the bad records of addicted gamblers, they have come with a general conclusion that gambling is bad, but we all know the truth that indiscipline and greed is the cause of those actions .

Getting an addiction is the complicated part of gambling and that is why when bet too often, it can be seen as a bad altitude towards gambling. There are many people that have find themselves in gambling addiction and still battling with it how they could come out of it. If their are too many gamblers who had became addicted to gambling, this could pose a serious threat to the nature how people in such surrounding leaves their lives. There are always advantages and disadvantages to gambling and we don't have to take it too seriously even though that is the major source of income to us.

Betting too often is not the problem the problem is allowing gambling activities to influence your life negatively, there is nothing absolutely wrong if one can be gambling often without allowing the gambling to affect their normal life, for me I will say that gambling money should be more like a disposable income after ensuring that we have taken care of our personal needs such that it will not become problematic to your living expenses, when one understand the level of time , energy and other resources to be allocated gambling and just stay within the limit can be a good approach towards gambling.

[LDL]

We know that gambling is a bad thing and there are many risks in a person's life, especially when the person becomes addicted. But mostly we know that gambling is basically a criminal activity in every society...

Gambling is not a crime to society but only when you engage in criminal activities to manage gambling money is a crime to society. There is a class of people in the society who find entertainment in gambling and gambling can never be considered a crime. However, when gambling involves theft, robbery and other heinous crimes to manage gambling money, gambling certainly brings negative effects to society.

[Z_MBFM]

There are different societies from place to place, some societies consider gambling as a normal activity while there are some areas where gambling is considered a criminal act and people in those societies do not look favorably on gamblers. Especially in Muslim countries, gambling is criminalized and those who gamble are punished by law. Gamblers in those societies are frowned upon by the people of the society and try to avoid them at all times. But apart from these, all the other countries that have allowed direct gambling have many physical casinos in their country where people can conduct all the gambling activities.

Gambling is good to the society but gamblers makes gambling look harmful to the society because they cannot control their greed which will finally land them into addiction. Some people have made it through gambling because after winning big, they were able to invest the money and it is a big achievement to them. On the other hand gambling have destroyed a lot of people future because they got carried away with making profit in gambling and that ruined their business, families and lives. It depends on what you take gambling for that will be the outcome.

I totally agree with, gambling depend on what you want to believe it as. Most people who are disciplined in their gambling would tell you gamble is fun, whereas others who take it as a source of income and get addicted along the way would say there is no fun in gambling because of the risk and fear of losing the last money left with you. And people like this, are more than those with self discipline who can actually use their Brains to make decisions rather than letting their emotion to make decisions for them. And the society due to the majority of struggling gambles or the bad records of addicted gamblers, they have come with a general conclusion that gambling is bad, but we all know the truth that indiscipline and greed is the cause of those actions .

Getting an addiction is the complicated part of gambling and that is why when bet too often, it can be seen as a bad altitude towards gambling. There are many people that have find themselves in gambling addiction and still battling with it how they could come out of it. If their are too many gamblers who had became addicted to gambling, this could pose a serious threat to the nature how people in such surrounding leaves their lives. There are always advantages and disadvantages to gambling and we don't have to take it too seriously even though that is the major source of income to us.

Betting too often is not the problem the problem is allowing gambling activities to influence your life negatively, there is nothing absolutely wrong if one can be gambling often without allowing the gambling to affect their normal life, for me I will say that gambling money should be more like a disposable income after ensuring that we have taken care of our personal needs such that it will not become problematic to your living expenses, when one understand the level of time , energy and other resources to be allocated gambling and just stay within the limit can be a good approach towards gambling.

Gambling income is temporary income, it comes suddenly and sometimes you lose everything. Gambling should not be used seriously for this. Gambling is a fun place Gambling games are very fun and there is more excitement than normal games because there is an opportunity to place bets. If one member of a family is addicted to gambling, the whole family will slowly be destroyed. So beware of gambling. And gambling addiction can destroy a family very quickly because society is always against gambling. Because every society wants every family to be happy and peaceful