Is it morally right for beggars to gamble?

[Zoomic]

I believe that beggars don't gamble for fun. So do you think that it's because they feel that they don't have anything to loose and somebody will still give them money if they lose? How will you feel if you see a beggar that you just gave your hard earned money using it to gamble?

Now we know why they are still beggars, they are so addicted to easily made money which they did not work hard for. There is no reason that is enough to justify beggars for gambling. A beggar who gambles is a lazy and irresponsible. Since their major aim of gambling is to make money, there are chances that they will be investing all the money they are making from begging into gambling. It becomes even worse if they are losing so much and chasing  losses. Begging to sustain their gambling desires is the most miserable lifestyle I can imagine right now.

[Dailyscript]

Lets leave moral here. In the first place these beggars might not be beggars from the very beginning but they turned into beggars due to their attitude toward gambling. They are addicts and every money they get, they tend to use it to gamble. The first thing always on their mind is gambling and this attitude starts gradually from when they start begging little money to recover their loss in the local casino's office. From there they feel they can beg anyone outside of the casino. This is something i have come across multiple times and it is one of the reasons i stopped going to the local gambling office because such character can be normalize over there and before you know if you are friends with such persons one can be easily influenced gradually.

I think the first instinct that should be in the mind of a beggar when they give him money should be to survive. Gambling with money is wrong, it just shows that the beggar is comfortable with begging and dont have plans to stop anytime soon.

[Marvelockg]

I believe that beggars don't gamble for fun. So do you think that it's because they feel that they don't have anything to loose and somebody will still give them money if they lose? How will you feel if you see a beggar that you just gave your hard earned money using it to gamble?

have you ever hard an encounter with a drug addict who after you've given him money uses it to smoke immediately he receives the money? Note that before a begger collects money from a stranger and immediately uses it to gamble, it's likely that he has gamble himself into being totally broke  and resort to begging to sponsor his gambling or he is mentally unstable and uses his money on whatever enters his mind after someone gives him the money.

If I ever give a begger money and he uses it for the purpose of gambling, I'm never giving him any dime again. Sometimes we're too fucosed on advocating that a gambler needs to be up to 18 years before he should be allowed to gamble without talking of other factors like being mentaly stanble and having a good source of income. If anyone can't at least provide for himself and have the spair money for his gambling, he should never think of gambling in the first place.

[Silberman]

I ask this question because in my city I've seen some beggars that gambles and I've often wondered why they do so. I know that people give beggars and destitutes money to eat and take care of their other basic needs like soap to bath and medicine Incase they don't feel well. And seeing them in lotto kiosks that are very rampant in the cities to bet makes me to wonder if it's not misplaced priorities for them.

I understand that most poor people are looking for shortcuts to riches and they see gambling as a get rich quick scheme. But most of them are ignorant of the house edge over gamblers and it means that winning is not easy.

I believe that beggars don't gamble for fun. So do you think that it's because they feel that they don't have anything to loose and somebody will still give them money if they lose? How will you feel if you see a beggar that you just gave your hard earned money using it to gamble?

Once the money you gave them is in their possession, they can do whatever they want with it, regardless of whatever moral objection you may have towards those people using that money to gamble or to buy illegal substances to consume, now without a doubt it is a mistake to use their limited funds in something that does not bring them an immediate and key benefit, but at the same time we must not forget that a person does not become a beggar out of nowhere, and that in order to get to that state a person needs to have a lot of problems they cannot solve on their own.

[Su-asa]

I ask this question because in my city I've seen some beggars that gambles and I've often wondered why they do so. I know that people give beggars and destitutes money to eat and take care of their other basic needs like soap to bath and medicine Incase they don't feel well. And seeing them in lotto kiosks that are very rampant in the cities to bet makes me to wonder if it's not misplaced priorities for them.

I understand that most poor people are looking for shortcuts to riches and they see gambling as a get rich quick scheme. But most of them are ignorant of the house edge over gamblers and it means that winning is not easy.

I believe that beggars don't gamble for fun. So do you think that it's because they feel that they don't have anything to loose and somebody will still give them money if they lose? How will you feel if you see a beggar that you just gave your hard earned money using it to gamble?

This is what gambling turns people into, it can turn someone that's financially independent to be a beggar. Sometimes I just scout the comment section on msport aviator and see a lot of people begging there, it all started when they lost everything they had in gambling. Helping such people is a waste of time because no matter how much you give them they will lose everything, They can't utilize the resources that gets into their hands because of this addiction. when you meet people like this giving them money isn't the solution to their problems

[khiholangkang]

This is quite interesting because there are a lot of statements that say that “gambling was created for rich people to have fun with their money” which triggers that there is no feasibility for someone who has financial difficulties to gamble, so that logic is not wrong in my opinion, because it may be true.

But also we can't deny that someone might be looking for happiness in gambling, and are poor people not allowed to be happy in gambling? of course that's not the mindset either, something that we need to understand in a context that might make us enough to take a middle ground, anyone is allowed to gamble, for whatever reason he gambles and regardless of his condition, is his own responsibility.

[Akbarkoe]

I believe that beggars don't gamble for fun. So do you think that it's because they feel that they don't have anything to loose and somebody will still give them money if they lose? How will you feel if you see a beggar that you just gave your hard earned money using it to gamble?

Now we know why they are still beggars, they are so addicted to easily made money which they did not work hard for. There is no reason that is enough to justify beggars for gambling. A beggar who gambles is a lazy and irresponsible. Since their major aim of gambling is to make money, there are chances that they will be investing all the money they are making from begging into gambling. It becomes even worse if they are losing so much and chasing  losses. Begging to sustain their gambling desires is the most miserable lifestyle I can imagine right now.

The dangerous thing is that if a beggar is already addicted to gambling, he becomes ambitious to continue gambling and is very passionate, he will certainly commit crimes to get anything in order to get money to gamble, not a few people commit criminal acts to get money to finance his gambling.

The poor are not fit to gamble when it comes to morals and logic especially for someone who understands finance, and the beggar makes money by gambling, it will not find a decent thought for a person to do gambling when he does not know what he will eat tomorrow.