Gambling isn't bad

[cxtreenal]

Gambling is not bad if you can treat it well. Gambling is parts of the entertainment but you should not play over and lose your money. People wants to make money from gambling after they seeing the chances so they chasing the win without thinks about the risks. But gambling is not a source of income so you must not use like a job. The risk will be bigger every time you playing. If you don't want to get more problems in gambling, you should controls yourself and if not, gambling can takes your money easily.

You haven't explained what you mean by taking gambling seriously. Most gamblers want to win from day one, so they are obsessed with making money. Those who mix gambling with being emotional will continue to lose money.
Spending too much time gambling will increase your losses. Even if you gamble to make money, it won't be the cause of your losses, just avoid excitement and keep a limited budget. Many gamblers lose a lot even though they gamble for fun because they don't stick to their bankroll.

[len01]

What's actually wrong is the approach people use to gamble, it has been advised a lot of times that gambling shouldn't be taken to seriously, don't expect gambling to be a side hustle or a source of income. If you do such then you are the one with the problem, gambling is not the problem, it you that is.
Just like driving a car, if you choose to drive recklessly and you get an accident, you are the cause.

If this is about who is to blame, I don't think it's fair to say that the gambler is the only one at fault. What about gambling companies that hire influencers or advertise their platforms in a way that makes winning seem incredibly easy? Someone who has never gambled before may be tempted to try it and eventually become addicted. Not everyone understands how gambling actually works.

It's like someone driving slowly and carefully when another person suddenly offers them a large amount of money but only if they chase after it at high speed. They take the offer, drive recklessly, and end up crashing.

I agree gambling is not a bad activity. However, the number of gamblers continues to rise every year. That doesn't necessarily mean they all started gambling to make money. Many are influenced by outside factors, begin gambling, lose money, and eventually come to see gambling as something harmful.

[Showlove01]

Gambling is not bad if you can treat it well. Gambling is parts of the entertainment but you should not play over and lose your money. People wants to make money from gambling after they seeing the chances so they chasing the win without thinks about the risks. But gambling is not a source of income so you must not use like a job. The risk will be bigger every time you playing. If you don't want to get more problems in gambling, you should controls yourself and if not, gambling can takes your money easily.

You haven't explained what you mean by taking gambling seriously. Most gamblers want to win from day one, so they are obsessed with making money. Those who mix gambling with being emotional will continue to lose money.
Spending too much time gambling will increase your losses. Even if you gamble to make money, it won't be the cause of your losses, just avoid excitement and keep a limited budget. Many gamblers lose a lot even though they gamble for fun because they don't stick to their bankroll.

I think every gambler wants to win from day one and not just most gamblers because even people that claims to gamble for fun still want to win from day one and there is nothing wrong with this mentality or mindset but what is wrong is when someone take it upon themselves that no matter what they must win no, that won't be cool because you are already in path of destruction I mean after getting addicted due to your mindset the next thing that comes is destruction unless someone is revived.

[Jaweria parveen]

When someone loses and loses control and goes into loss, gambling is still not bad ? Gambling has always been bad because it is a very bad addiction due to which a person loses his greed and emotions, due to which he loses and also gets addicted to it. Even if there is profit in gambling, it is still a lie because it is not the earnings that are in business, but still people play it. People feel that if they are investing money, it is like a business in which sometimes there is profit and sometimes there is loss, but such an addiction does not occur in business. In business, one has to work daily, but while gambling, the pressure is only pressure and due to this we also place wrong bets, which leads to losses. Gambling also changes the environment of the house and is also a major reason for the decline in it.

[YOSHIE]

I go through topics and replies, some just talk of gambling like it's some type of awful activity and shouldn't be done by people.

Actually, to understand gambling is easy, the bad and the good depends on ourselves how to understand gambling, I always understand gambling is a game, where in a game there are winners and losers, the way I think about it is enough for me to think that gambling is not that bad.

That money can make us slaves and that money can make us rich, when we think about things like that of course we can control ourselves in understanding gambling, As long as we are aware that there are winners and losers in a game, all gambling activities feel comfortable and controlled.

[Nathrixxx]

To gamble is not a bad decision, but failing to plan yourself in gambling is really bad, that is why we have to be more concerned on how we could be a responsible Gambler to maximize every gambling opportunity for our own benefits, when you see a problem gambler or an addicted one, then know that such is coming as a result of their inability to adequately gamble in a normal way,

[Mame89]

Just to be clear Gambling is no BAD.
I go through topics and replies, some just talk of gambling like it's some type of awful activity and shouldn't be done by people.
But that's actually wrong. Gambling is not bad, I wouldn't say it's good as well, it's literally just an activity and it completely okay for someone to gamble as long as your above age 18.

What's actually wrong is the approach people use to gamble, it has been advised a lot of times that gambling shouldn't be taken to seriously, don't expect gambling to be a side hustle or a source of income. If you do such then you are the one with the problem, gambling is not the problem, it you that is.
Just like driving a car, if you choose to drive recklessly and you get an accident, you are the cause.

So instead of saying gambling is bad (which is not) it's better to advise more on how to stay on the purpose of gambling have fun, the risk involved is just like normal expenses, like paying to play a video game of something similar.
If you need some money, you shouldn't gamble for it. After all mathematically your going to loose in a long run, so what's the use of you imagining some unrealistic wins.

Gambling is fun try it for the right reasons "ENTERTAINMENT"

What you've said is all true. Gambling isn't inherently a bad activity it's simply risky entertainment. The problem is usually those who gamble as a source of income, to chase losses or to gamble with money needed for living expenses. So, it could be said that gambling, like video games, alcohol or extreme sports, can be safe if used responsibly. It can be fun if done within clear limits and without the expectation of getting rich.

So, to prevent gambling from being harmful to you, you must treat it as entertainment and maintain strict control. Consider any lost money as playing expenses, be prepared for total losses, and don't chase losses. Essentially, the reason gambling is considered bad is because many people gamble emotionally which is why many become addicted. Therefore, you must focus on a healthy approach gambling for fun, limit your losses and stop when it's no longer enjoyable.

[Joeboy]

I think every gambler wants to win from day one and not just most gamblers because even people that claims to gamble for fun still want to win from day one and there is nothing wrong with this mentality or mindset but what is wrong is when someone take it upon themselves that no matter what they must win no, that won't be cool because you are already in path of destruction I mean after getting addicted due to your mindset the next thing that comes is destruction unless someone is revived.

Some don't operate with such a mentality, you seem mistakened on that point... Truly there are Gamblers who actually gambles for fun, and in cases where they win they receive it as a bonus , but if they lose the amount they budgeted they simply move on... Some folks don't even see losses as anything coz they have a lot from their pocket to actually spare..

Also, anytime and any day, approaching gambling with I am here to win mindset is very wrong if not even even risky... Winning from gambling isn't guaranteed and so if winning is your primary reason for gambling, not only will you be disappointed, but you may even become addicted... Coz you will always want to chase after you loss or keep playing for longer hours in the hope of recovering the money that you have lost..

[Bluedrem]

Yes, gambling is not bad as long as a gambler controls himself while gambling. Gambling is not really bad because gambling never forces a person to become addicted, people actually become addicted due to their lack of caution and without knowing their own risk-taking ability.
However, if someone wants to and if someone continues to gamble while being aware of their own risks and keeping control over themselves and never gambles beyond their discretionary limits, then gambling will not cause harm to them.
But this is something that most people cannot do. When a person starts gambling, he may be cautious at first, but in the end, when he loses money, he gambles to recover that money and becomes addicted to gambling.

[Promocodeudo]

Op there is a particular clause of your write-up that said, it is the approach that people gamble with that's wrong not gambling itself, you're absolutely right with, I don't know why it is very difficult for some gamblers to admit that they are they ones making things very difficult for themselves in gambling, for example, there has been many discussions about the negative effect of chasing loss here and irl, I mean reason why it isn't ideal for a gambler to chase losses as a result of gambling with what they can't afford to lose, but there are gamblers that are still doing the same things persistently and if they get affected by what they are doing, they will go ahead to blame it on gambling not themselves, I see such persons as cowards, because one the of signs of cowardice is when individuals refuses to accept the responsibility of their actions.

[Floxynice]

I have come to realise that the reason customs, traditions, and religious beliefs consider gambling to be bad is because gambling makes people lazy. It makes them want to sit at home and make millions from something they did not work for. All of these traditional and religious people believe in hard work. Before you earn money, you should work hard for it, as opposed to what gambling makes gamblers do.

Right now, it seems that the majority of gamblers are proving these traditional and religious people right because gamblers are gambling more aggressively and losing control over themselves. More people are becoming addicted, and some are experiencing gambling problems. These are the things that they were trying to prevent. If gamblers generally can gamble responsibly and be more responsible, there will be no issues, and people will stop seeing it as a negative activity.

In reality, ethical norms of hard work and morality in the society trace the traditional and religious rejection of speculation. The prospect of getting rich without working makes people lazy, and the possibility of addiction makes people lack self discipline and corrupts the family. Although the idea of personal responsibility has been proposed as a remedy, the adverse social effects of terrible financial losses persist to give this activity a widespread bad reputation.

You have just stated a fact that is very clear, just as I have stated previously. As long as money is involved, gambling responsibly becomes a bit difficult, except for the very few gamblers who are disciplined. The thought of chasing losses or never giving up when losses are accumulating is what those who are against gambling foresaw and tagged as bad because they know the consequences involved, so people will either tread with caution or avoid it completely. Whether gambling is bad or not depends on the gambler in question. If gambling has negative effects on him, then it is bad; if he is doing well as a gambler, then I can say it is good for him. Everyone who calls himself a gambler should know when what he is doing is not going well for him.

[Cgrexp]

Yes, gambling is not bad as long as a gambler controls himself while gambling. Gambling is not really bad because gambling never forces a person to become addicted, people actually become addicted due to their lack of caution and without knowing their own risk-taking ability.
However, if someone wants to and if someone continues to gamble while being aware of their own risks and keeping control over themselves and never gambles beyond their discretionary limits, then gambling will not cause harm to them.
But this is something that most people cannot do. When a person starts gambling, he may be cautious at first, but in the end, when he loses money, he gambles to recover that money and becomes addicted to gambling.

You are right. If we lose the money that is beyond our needs, it will not have any bad effect on our personal life. Similarly, as long as a gambler plays within his limits and does not exceed the limit, he will not be affected even if he loses his unnecessary money. If someone bets beyond the limit of losing and loses it, he loses his necessary money, which disrupts his normal life. Therefore, it is most reasonable to decide by considering his risk-taking ability and limitations before gambling. However, you are right that most people cannot maintain control because they think that the more money they put in, the more they will get back, and they do not hesitate to take risks. However, if someone becomes more addicted to recovering the lost money, the result has a negative effect in the long run from which a person may have to struggle for a long time to recover.

[Agbe]

Many factors contributed to different people over viewing of gambling. The gamblers' behavior can also contribute to those views. A gambler who was married to a woman and he opened store for her. And in this business, the guy was using the profit from the store to go and gamble and there was no return of profit instead the profit from the store was going out in a steady bases and with that the business started to reduce because the profit was used for gambling, now this woman has seen gambling has a bad something and she told other people about the scenereo and those too see it as a bad habit and that is how the slogan of "gambling is s a bad habit" became popular in the society. It is was from one person point of view that spread to others.
But if the gambler knows himself and gamble moderately and gamble what he can afford to lose the. It is not a bad habit. According a popular saying, excess of everything is bad.

[Bluedrem]

You are right. If we lose the money that is beyond our needs, it will not have any bad effect on our personal life. Similarly, as long as a gambler plays within his limits and does not exceed the limit, he will not be affected even if he loses his unnecessary money. If someone bets beyond the limit of losing and loses it, he loses his necessary money, which disrupts his normal life. Therefore, it is most reasonable to decide by considering his risk-taking ability and limitations before gambling. However, you are right that most people cannot maintain control because they think that the more money they put in, the more they will get back, and they do not hesitate to take risks. However, if someone becomes more addicted to recovering the lost money, the result has a negative effect in the long run from which a person may have to struggle for a long time to recover.

I think all gamblers are aware of the risks of gambling before gambling. But the situation becomes dangerous when they lose money while gambling. To be honest, they cannot handle the grief of losing money, so they try their best to recover that money and lose more money.
Again, there is a type of gambler who wins small bets in the beginning and thinks that if it is possible to win big bets from here, they start gambling aggressively and in the end they lose even a few more money than the amount of money they won in the beginning.
In fact, once you start gambling, it becomes very difficult to control yourself. A person is very easily addicted to forbidden things, we all have to accept this

[Judith87403]

When someone loses and loses control and goes into loss, gambling is still not bad ? Gambling has always been bad because it is a very bad addiction due to which a person loses his greed and emotions, due to which he loses and also gets addicted to it. Even if there is profit in gambling, it is still a lie because it is not the earnings that are in business, but still people play it. People feel that if they are investing money, it is like a business in which sometimes there is profit and sometimes there is loss, but such an addiction does not occur in business. In business, one has to work daily, but while gambling, the pressure is only pressure and due to this we also place wrong bets, which leads to losses. Gambling also changes the environment of the house and is also a major reason for the decline in it.

It's only someone that doesn't know his limit that will say that gambling is harmful but someone who is very cautious and only gamble with a spare money cannot experience the ugly side of gambling. Some persons see gambling as a way to generate income but it isn't. Gambling is just a game of chance and since losing rate is higher, we should treat it with ultimate caution knowing that if we go above our budget, it will lead to regrets. Gambling is not an investment where you expect profits one day because there are people who took gambling seriously and have been gambling for many years but they have been losing without winning any tangible amount from it.

[ImGenius]

I go through topics and replies, some just talk of gambling like it's some type of awful activity and shouldn't be done by people.

Yes, there are many people who think that gambling is a bad activity that should not be done. This comment is mostly made by people who have never gambled. When someone heard that a person has become poor and mentally unstable by gambling they think that gambling is a bad activity.

If you need some money, you shouldn't gamble for it. After all mathematically your going to loose in a long run, so what's the use of you imagining some unrealistic wins.

right but those who don't have much fund to gamble as an entertainment will most time gamble to earn money later when they lose everything they will bring bad impression to public

[SUPERSAIAN]

There is a very thin line between Gambling and its negative impact on the person. One thing we must be clear about is that gamblers who fail to take action to avoid greed and impatience will definitely find the better part of gambling, and such a person will say gambling is not bad, which is the truth.
Gambling becomes bad when you take gambling as a cash cow, meaning where to make money from it. By so doing, you will be under pressure to gamble and chase winning and overlook your losses, which becomes the bad aspect of gambling.

Humans and animals don't fare very well under pressure. If you psychologically put yourself under the same pressure in gambling—which is related to winning money—the outcome is usually not good for the person. Gambling itself isn't bad; it's how you manage it. If you can't manage it, that's what's bad for the individual. If your goal is to win money, know that you will lose money.

[Onyeeze]

To gamble is not a bad decision, but failing to plan yourself in gambling is really bad, that is why we have to be more concerned on how we could be a responsible Gambler to maximize every gambling opportunity for our own benefits, when you see a problem gambler or an addicted one, then know that such is coming as a result of their inability to adequately gamble in a normal way,

To gamble is a bad decision when you fail to schedule yourself in gambling, they are gamblers that gambles out of strategies and budget, so when you gamble out of strategies and limits, it will become bad thing to you, in gambling you need to have a budget so that you will not be ruin by gambling, why people seems gambling as a bad thing is when they keep all their hopes in gambling and it fail them, and it's clear that there's 80% chances for gambling to disappoint gambler, so we need to gamble with caution so that we will not be affected in gambling, when we gamble out of budget we're putting our self into bankrupt

[Zigabel]

Just to be clear Gambling is no BAD.
 
But that's actually wrong. Gambling is not bad, I wouldn't say it's good as well, it's literally just an activity and it completely okay for someone to gamble as long as your above age 18.

What's actually wrong is the approach people use to gamble, it has been advised a lot of times that gambling shouldn't be taken to seriously, don't expect gambling to be a side hustle or a source of income. If you do such then you are the one with the problem, gambling is not the problem, it you that is.
Just like driving a car, if you choose to drive recklessly and you get an accident, you are the cause.  

Gambling is fun try it for the right reasons "ENTERTAINMENT"

I remember replying to a similar topic and my response still haven't changed till this time. Gambling just like OP has said, is not, cannot and will never be the bad thing here, the attitude and approach with which people gamble is the reason they have suffered certain fate and keep blaming Gambling for their attitude and approach towards gambling, and there are people out there who are gamblers and gamble the right way and has not suffered the same fate as the others who has refused to gamble in the right way they are supposed to gamble.

If people gamble responsibly as they should, there will be less blaming on gambling out there than they do now, gambling is and will always be a neutral body on its own, it only becomes what you make of it.

[GIF-JOBS]

Gambling is not bad if you can treat it well. Gambling is parts of the entertainment but you should not play over and lose your money. People wants to make money from gambling after they seeing the chances so they chasing the win without thinks about the risks. But gambling is not a source of income so you must not use like a job. The risk will be bigger every time you playing. If you don't want to get more problems in gambling, you should controls yourself and if not, gambling can takes your money easily.

You haven't explained what you mean by taking gambling seriously. Most gamblers want to win from day one, so they are obsessed with making money. Those who mix gambling with being emotional will continue to lose money.
Spending too much time gambling will increase your losses. Even if you gamble to make money, it won't be the cause of your losses, just avoid excitement and keep a limited budget. Many gamblers lose a lot even though they gamble for fun because they don't stick to their bankroll.

Actually, the main thing is to limit yourself in gambling, no matter how you gamble, whether you gamble to make money or just for fun, if you keep your limits in mind and play to earn money within a certain amount, then there will be no problem. But the moment you continue to gamble to make money and eventually cross your limits, that is when the main problem will arise. The main thing in gambling is to control yourself and maintain financial limits properly. There is no guarantee of profit in gambling, so it should never be seen as a source of income, but if it is done, it can become very harmful. It is important to accept losses here, and for this, you should play with the mindset of losing in advance.