Gambling activities as a path to curb irresponsible decision making in adults.

[Darker45]

This sounds funny to me. It seems the solution you proposed will create more problems instead of solving the existing ones. Gambling causes more harm than good. I guess that's a generalization that can easily be supported by facts.  

I'm sure if somebody is having problems with making real-life decisions and goes to a professional, he/she won't be advised to get into gambling. Most likely, it worsens his/her situation.

I'm curious how you came up with such idea. Could you share scientific basis for this, if there's any?

[Botnake]

Gambling causes more harm than good.

If that’s really how people felt and how governments saw it, gambling would already be banned worldwide. But the truth is only a few actually complain, not because casinos are harming them, but because they caused the problem themselves. Responsible gambling really is a simple principle, only bet what you can afford to lose, yet many gamblers still ignore that. That’s why they end up with consequences.

You can’t put all the blame on the casino. It’s like liquor. The bottle literally says drink moderately, but if someone drinks too much, gets drunk, drives, and crashes, you can’t blame the liquor itself.

[Darker45]

Gambling causes more harm than good.

If that’s really how people felt and how governments saw it, gambling would already be banned worldwide. But the truth is only a few actually complain, not because casinos are harming them, but because they caused the problem themselves. Responsible gambling really is a simple principle, only bet what you can afford to lose, yet many gamblers still ignore that. That’s why they end up with consequences.

You can’t put all the blame on the casino. It’s like liquor. The bottle literally says drink moderately, but if someone drinks too much, gets drunk, drives, and crashes, you can’t blame the liquor itself.

1. The main reason why gambling isn't banned is that it can't be eradicated. So, the better thing to do is to regulate it and make revenue from it.

2. Gamblers don't complain about gambling as drug users don't complain about drugs. Alcoholics aren't complaining about alcohol, either.

3. Responsible gambling is indeed a simple principle, but hard to practice. Rather than having fun gambling, gambling making fun of gamblers is often the case.

4. I'm not blaming casinos. Casinos themselves are there because of gambling, not the other way around.

[Botnake]

Gambling causes more harm than good.

If that’s really how people felt and how governments saw it, gambling would already be banned worldwide. But the truth is only a few actually complain, not because casinos are harming them, but because they caused the problem themselves. Responsible gambling really is a simple principle, only bet what you can afford to lose, yet many gamblers still ignore that. That’s why they end up with consequences.

You can’t put all the blame on the casino. It’s like liquor. The bottle literally says drink moderately, but if someone drinks too much, gets drunk, drives, and crashes, you can’t blame the liquor itself.

1. The main reason why gambling isn't banned is that it can't be eradicated. So, the better thing to do is to regulate it and make revenue from it.

Agree

2. Gamblers don't complain about gambling as drug users don't complain about drugs. Alcoholics aren't complaining about alcohol, either.

Agree

3. Responsible gambling is indeed a simple principle, but hard to practice. Rather than having fun gambling, gambling making fun of gamblers is often the case.

Disagree. I don’t think it’s hard to practice at all. If you believe only a few end up addicted while the majority are just having fun, that’s because most people actually do gamble responsibly. It’s not our problem, and not even the government’s problem, if some still fail. That’s on them. They made the mistake, not the system.

4. I'm not blaming casinos. Casinos themselves are there because of gambling, not the other way around.

I wasn't referring to you, it was a general statement address to the sore losers.

[casey15]

Well.. I do not think gambling is the way or will help someone who is finding it difficult to make decisions in real life. I actually think it will take the person away from reality. Indecision can be as a result of many things..one especially is low self esteem and I don't see gambling as an edge in combating that. Maybe I just didn't get you point but then getting discipline is beyond making bets. If you are not discipline, gambling becomes an addiction faster .. so.i don't see it as a means to help your discipline if you do not already have it

[michellee]

In real life, you need to have responsibility with all things you do. From real life, you can bring that to gambling so you will responsible with your gambling activities.

If you make a decision, you may gamble with all options that exist. But the result will be different than gambling where you only lose money and make you addicted. In real life, you will have different impacts so that will not always about losing money.

All things you have such as discipline, responsibility, self control and others will help you to be responsible gamblers. An irresponsible decision happens when someone don't thinking about the impacts that may happens.

[CryptoYar]

That is quite interesting idea that highly controlled gambling place might teach good behavior by making people to use systematic thinking and strict risk management instead of feelings. Hypothetically, this feedback based structured place may help in replacing bad habits with skills such as figuring out chances and sticking to set limits. But dangers are huge, as gambling is highly likely to cause addiction, it is meant to trick reward system of brain and makes people more easily led by sudden urges, which is opposite to goal of becoming disciplined. Thus, although idea of teaching risk management through a very interesting activity is brilliant, gambling is too risky because of great chances of addiction, and it would be more fitting to consider non money based pretend games to teach these skills in safe way.

[Jubilee58]

Some people who have problems with making real life decisions as per making a one pick and sticking with it, should try to use more structured methods with gambling as the focus activity, that is considering they love the idea of gambling already, because I believe that it would help replace every emotional reaction with systematic analysis, which is a core definition of disciplined decision-making.
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Gambling activities make one to become hardened and swift and when controlled, it calls for more discipline at making real life decisions.
Although, it is a pure game of chance and could lead to addiction quickly, if one happens to control it by defining it in an environment as a high skill, and with high feedback, with controlled risk management activity, I am certain it could work well and be effective to curb irresponsible decision making in a young adult who is going through life confused.
‎Don't forget that the focus of using gambling activities here mandates that it must be done in an environment with structure and a feedback team or system to take note.

Your opinion is welcomed!
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If I understand what your statement, are you saying being discipline in gambling can enable make real life decisions? And if that is what you meant, I don't really think so because being a responsible gambler cannot enable you make informed decision in life . If one is discipline in his life style, is possible such person can become disciplined while gambling, but if you lack discipline in making real life decisions, being discipline in gambling will never help you out.

[acroman08]

Your opinion is welcomed!

This is a disaster waiting to happen. If you already don't have a discipline to stick to one decision, gambling could or would make it worse, because gambling affects you emotionally and psychologically. Thinking that gambling could help replace emotional reaction with systematic analysis is just wishful thinking unless the person already has the discipline to actually keep their emotion in check when gambling. Gambling usually heightens your emotions, so instead of being able to control it, you'd most likely be more emotional and make more rash and reckless decisions.

[Africolo]

Some people who have problems with making real life decisions as per making a one pick and sticking with it, should try to use more structured methods with gambling as the focus activity, that is considering they love the idea of gambling already, because I believe that it would help replace every emotional reaction with systematic analysis, which is a core definition of disciplined decision-making.
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Gambling activities make one to become hardened and swift and when controlled, it calls for more discipline at making real life decisions.
Although, it is a pure game of chance and could lead to addiction quickly, if one happens to control it by defining it in an environment as a high skill, and with high feedback, with controlled risk management activity, I am certain it could work well and be effective to curb irresponsible decision making in a young adult who is going through life confused.
‎Don't forget that the focus of using gambling activities here mandates that it must be done in an environment with structure and a feedback team or system to take note.

Your opinion is welcomed!
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This question of yours is a bit complicated and confusing to analyze properly, if I may assimilate your submission you are saying those who gambles has a good decision making or are at a good chance of making life or career decision making in real life? If that the case I can tell you for free that it's wrong, there are gamblers that can predict rightly when it comes to gambling but are not good decision maker in real life.

Gambling and life are two different aspects of life so you can't channel what happens in gambling to reality it doesn't work that way, the only way of curbing irresponsibilities in gambling is risk management and having a low budget amount for gambling so you don't lavish all your income in gambling. Gambling makes you go through emotional stress and depression especially when you are on a loosing streak, to be on a safer side risk what you can afford loose and be disciplined in decision making not all risk should be taken, analyze before taking decisions.

[AmaGold70]

Gambling isn't the best option for anyone that is struggling to make firm decisions for themselves in real life, gambling will rather make the situation worse and put you in deep mess. Gambling should be for people that have the capacity to control their emotions and are also disciplined in making decisions and not for anyone that is still reckless and can't even control their emotions by themselves, I disagree with you entirely on your suggestion and anyone that takes gambling as a part of curb irresponsible decision making will obviously end up becoming more irresponsible and undisciplined to make good decisions.

[SamReomo]

Only few gambling games are actually not solely relying on luck, such as sportsbetting and poker game, where knowledge and skills of the player are also important. So if you are playing the regular casino games, your luck will always be part of your betting journey.

I agree, in sports betting and in poker ones luck isn't the main factor while in other type of games that casinos offer one has to have a good luck to win against the house edge set by the casino on the games. It's not easy to beat the house edge and that's why they say house always wins.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Oh my god, what was once considered entertainment is now being defined as a place where willpower is cultivated. OP, are you out of your mind? Gambling is a place where you pay and wait for Lady Luck to favor you today, right now, at this very moment. And that's it, nothing more. Those things you're talking about, decision-making and so on, aren't cultivated here but in the family. Your parents should raise you to be that kind of person. Gambling should be a place where you rarely win but still have fun because you allow yourself to spend as much as you can without thinking about what you'll eat tomorrow or how you'll live. That's the only way.

[blomen]

sometimes in life, we struggle even with very simple decisions. for example, i've seen people who can't even choose which t-shirt to wear under their coat when going outside. the main reason for this is that when we make a choice between options that are very similar, we feel like we are missing out on the other option. in the previous example, there is a person who struggles to make a decision because wearing one t-shirt means losing the opportunity to wear the other, even though it won't change anything.

making choices can also be difficult in gambling, especially when our ideas about a match don't match, but gambling with amounts that fit your budget can make these choices easier after a while and get you used to it. i don't know how much of an impact this will have on real life, but it's worth trying for someone who enjoys gambling.

[Wapfika]

Only few gambling games are actually not solely relying on luck, such as sportsbetting and poker game, where knowledge and skills of the player are also important. So if you are playing the regular casino games, your luck will always be part of your betting journey.

I agree, in sports betting and in poker ones luck isn't the main factor while in other type of games that casinos offer one has to have a good luck to win against the house edge set by the casino on the games. It's not easy to beat the house edge and that's why they say house always wins.

Even on poker and sports betting luck is the main factor for your winning chance since there’s always a part of this game that you will still rely on luck.

For example on poker, if you having a bad card you will never win or if you have a bad luck on flop cards and river you will still lose even if you have a high winning percentage based on stats.

Same with sports betting, we can’t predict 100% how players behave on actual game which you will rely on luck that the game will play according to your prediction.

Even skill based games still have risk involved and luck comes to fill that gap.

[purple_sparkles]

The most foolish and irrational reason for gambling, in my opinion, is when people try to solve their financial problems this way. I understand that any business is a risk by nature, and not every job is safe or fulfilling either, but gambling is far more dangerous and stressful. If someone wants to experiment like that, it should be done alongside a stable source of income, and only with money they can afford to lose. On the other hand, by gambling we learn to make risky decisions more easily and quickly, and this skill is also important for improving the quality of our lives.

[viljy]

Is this OP suggesting using gambling as therapy? It seems to me that this is a very risky way, and besides, I highly doubt that all this will be effective. Gambling is primarily entertainment. I do not think that it is necessary to give psychotherapeutic properties to gambling, just as it is a mistake to consider gambling as a kind of business or work. In other words, I don't think gambling can fix any character flaws. But gambling is very likely to worsen the problems of a weak-willed person. Of course, this is just a subjective opinion.

[Maus0728]

That is one slippery slope of an advice, I am telling you. No matter how optimistic you are when it comes to people being able to control their urge to gamble recklessly, not every person that would follow your advice is going to be successful and in my opinion, there is probably more better ways to deal with being emotional and indecisiveness. Therapy is the most underrated one because this one has some stigma on it especially when it involves men who find therapy as an effeminate activity even though the effectiveness of therapy is so high.

If you grew up to have such behavior, I do not think that gambling is going to help you in that predicament because the root cause of this is probably your upbringing, maybe you got too pampered and overprotected by your parents that you end up not knowing how to be an independent person and so now that you are an adult, you are paralyzed in situations that most healthy adults can easily navigate, therapy can help you with that but gambling, I do not think you would be any better.

People that think this way are not serious about resolving their problems, they are probably going to get worse if they continue doing this kind of false cure for a problem that would arguably get worse if they continue with this stupid process. If you want to be disciplined, try abstaining from gambling or maybe even doing sports or doing exercise and sticking to it, that is how you train your discipline, not by gambling.

[SamReomo]

Even on poker and sports betting luck is the main factor for your winning chance since there’s always a part of this game that you will still rely on luck.

Well, to some extent you're right that even in poker and sports betting luck does play its role but in those games sometimes one's skill and proper strategies and research can make someone win the games. You can call that someone as lucky but it's purely due to skill and research.

[Mrbluntzy]

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Gambling activities make one to become hardened and swift and when controlled, it calls for more discipline at making real life decisions.
Although, it is a pure game of chance and could lead to addiction quickly, if one happens to control it by defining it in an environment as a high skill, and with high feedback, with controlled risk management activity, I am certain it could work well and be effective to curb irresponsible decision making in a young adult who is going through life confused.
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Is it really so for every gambler? I don't think so, whether some gamblers control their gambling behaviors or not, they still result to being compulsive and that's because gambling is not for everyone, some persons have a fragile heart, they can not handle an activity that involves money but is based on winning, these set of people will feel bored to be responsible and discipline because they just want to feel the complete impact of gambling on them and when they can not become successful, turn to addict. While for some persons too, they probably got addicted once or twice but later escaped it and after then they decided to make better decisions, maybe it can be said that they learned from their mistake and became better risk takers in all things but it would have been good if you mentioned that everyone is not alike, what works for someone might not work for another.