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Jan 23, 2017 Hello, Well no doubts Gambling is the worst thing you'll ever do in your life. Mark my words unless you are one in zillion person who will make money from gambling despite of all the odds through which house always emerge as a winner gambling will.

WatchMeWin

I have been gambling ever since I place my first bet on a baseball game and won. I was 18 at the time. I remember walking into the casino for the first time at the age of 19. I won that nite too.. Oh how the spirits lure you in! Ive had many ups and downs and along the way I have always felt that it is bad to gamble whether it be in a casino or with a bookie. Obviously in Vegas you can bet sports in a casino, which is part of the point I am going to make.
The government has said in the past that it is bad to gamble. Immoral, illegal in all states except one or two. Then they need money and they legalize it in just about every square mile of the US. Now it is not illigal or immoral? I guess the lottery isnt gambling since it generates hundreds of millions of dollars for the states. The churches all preach that it is a sin to gamble, yet they have bingo to generate revenue.. but thats ok. They are all hypocrites! Online gambling has been illegal and baaddd. but they will soon legalize it to bring in revenue. Was it ever really bad?
Agreed, people for the most part, have lack of control when it comes to gambling, but that is their choice to do so. Agreed, there is nothing good about what casinos are doing other than employing some people and offering a fair way for people to wager their hard earned money. That is their choice.
Lets not even start to talk about the bs on wall street. That is the greatest casino on earth. I gues weekly options , which have recently been implemented by the SEC, are not gambling tools. It is 100 % gambling. Hypocrites!
So , my question to all.. Is gambling inherently / innately bad for humans to do? Do we need the laws to state one way or another for the notion of gambling to be honorable and good for humans? Obviously, we all desire to do so as the numbers worldwide are undeniable and growing every day. Its all about the money!

Face
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I suspect many will be burnt out on this topic, so if the replies are slim, simply search 'ethics' in the WoV search and you'll have a 1,000 posts to hold you over.

So , my question to all.. Is gambling inherently / innately bad for humans to do? Do we need the laws to state one way or another for the notion of gambling to be honorable and good for humans? Obviously, we all desire to do so as the numbers worldwide are undeniable and growing every day. Its all about the money!

As for the above point, I think gambling is simply the name we have now for what has always been a part of human nature. We put ourselves (financially, nowadays) at risk for the chance at great reward. In the way-back, our skins wearing ancestors probably did the same. They could eek out a living on squirrels and groundhogs, but bear and buffalo meat gave much greater rewards, be it bone, skin or flesh. Killing one was a gamble, as they can can kill you back. The numerous berries found in my parts would have been a good source of carbs needed for caveman energy, but bee honey was a far better source and had much more use. Of course, there was the risk of being poisoned to death and/or risking infection by getting it, so I would define procuring it as a gamble.
So inherently bad? Not in the slightest. It's human nature, no different than eating or having sex. It just, like anything else, can be abused.

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WatchMeWin

Well put Face.

tsmith

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I've been gambling since I was 7 and old enough for my father to teach me that three-of-a-kind beats two pairs. I don't think it's a bad thing, any more than I think drinking a glass of wine is a bad thing, but both can become bad when taken to extremes and the practice of them causes a person to neglect everything and everyone else.
When did the government ever say that gambling was bad? They might have said it was illegal (only because they weren't getting a cut of every bet that was being made) but illegal doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for you. Smoking is 'bad for humans to do' but it's not illegal, nor is it immoral. Driving at excessive speeds is illegal but I don't think you can classify it as either good or bad.
The government never changed their feelings about gambling, if they had any to begin with; they just recognized that they could make money from it because people were going to do it regardless. Making something legal that used to be illegal doesn't change the morality of an activity. Legalizing murder, i.e., making it non-punishable by the justice system, wouldn't make it any less immoral.
As for churches, I have yet to have one show me a passage in the Bible where it says 'Thou shalt not gamble.' Churches make up their own rules on so many things. There's a religion, I think it's Church of Christ, that does not allow any musical instruments in their churches other than the ones mentioned in the Bible, like trumpets and drums. The fact that the piano wasn't even invented until about 1,500 years after the Bible was written makes no difference; you can't have a piano in church because it ain't in the Bible. Gimme a break.

FrGamble

Yeah, if we depended on man made laws to determine what was morally right or wrong we would be in big trouble, good thing there is the natural law and divine law (for those who believe in such things). The Catholic Church at least has consistently held that gambling is not one of those things that are inherently immoral or objectively evil. Here is the quote from the official teaching of the Catechism:
#2413 - Games of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is necessary to provide for his needs and those of others. The passion for gambling risks becoming an enslavement. Unfair wagers and cheating at games constitute grave matter, unless the damage inflicted is so slight that the one who suffers it cannot reasonably consider it significant.

EvenBob

#2413 - Games of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is necessary to provide for his needs and those of others. The passion for gambling risks becoming an enslavement. Unfair wagers and cheating at games constitute grave matter, unless the damage inflicted is so slight that the one who suffers it cannot reasonably consider it significant.

Wow, thats actually a very enlightened attitude, coming from the
Catholic's. You won't find any such tolerance in the modern Bible
belting churches. My wife's church abhors drinking, smoking and
gambling. They can't point to anywhere in the Bible where these
things are condemned, but they just know they're pure evil.

'It's not enough to succeed, your friends must fail.' Gore Vidal

Well put Face.

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Indeed, he made his point very well. I don't think there is an easy answer. Gambling at terrible odds, with money you can't really afford to lose, and not being able to not do so is bad. Going to Vegas and playing 100+ games, having practiced your ass o

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