Why is gambling immoral?

Gambling is not inherently immoral, although it can be if carried out in an irresponsible manner. The reason people think it's immoral is that religion tells us so.

It isn't.

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the problem wrote:

Vulnerable people are exploited by their gambling addiction. They suffer and their families suffer.

That exploitation is immoral.

This.

Entering a game of chance is not inherently immoral. It can often be an addiction and most if not all addictions are stigmatised, and it can also be reckless stupidity.

But mostly gambling is immoral on the dealer side. Street gambling is just outright fraud 100% of the time. Casinos are legal, but they aren't even trying to be fair. Not only the odds are calculated to always be slightly in favor of the house, but they also employ tricks to keep you playing. The most common one is no windows so you can't realise you've been there too long by seeing dusk or dawn. Sometimes they would also serve 'free' drinks. Stuff like that.

It's not immoral. Unless you play a professional sport and bet on your own team. While you control the outcome. But it was illegal for awhile because taxes weren't being paid on gambling.

Gambling is not immoral.

Gambling is low-class.

Investing (not speculating on individual stocks) is not gambling.

Gambling can become problematic obviously and is an addictive behavior that can, and often does, get out of hand.

Just read what Marx said about it.

It’s like private representation.

Creating something from nothing in gambling ALWAYS is because someone somewhere else is getting taking advantage of

Also to ask such a question you obviously will never have the answer

If you know you know

A question does not give you an answer but just builds the ego

Actions. Actions...

Honestly, I don't think gambling is immoral. The definition is too wide aside from anything else. So if I go to a school games night and they are playing games for 1p and 2p that is immoral? Really? The machines in the arcade at the seaside?

People who gamble are being immoral? Not so much.

Now, a lot of things that aren't immoral maybe aren't right - or a good idea - but that's a different thing altogether. I mean you can sit in a bar and drink half a bottle of vodka in shots but that doesn't mean it's a particularly good idea. Is it immoral? Yes/no? What if it causes more harm than the gambling you did earlier in the night. You're eating a cheeseburger. You're wearing a leather belt. You have clothes made of plastic. Who made those? The receipt they give you is made from trees that were chopped down destroying an animal's home. So where does it stop? We sit at home in bubbles slowly starving?

On the scale of right and wrong I feel gambling falls pretty low.

I also feel it's a handy way to judge people.

I gambled a couple years ago and got married. Worst decision ever. Lost my house and some of my money, over 500 thousand dollars. Worst of all I lost my dignity. Wish I never got married, worst gamble ever.

The old thread gets bumped.

Things that are generally considered immoral are often outlawed.

Stealing, assault, murder, etc.

Gambling was completely illegal in the past and run by gangsters.

Over time, more and more legalized gambling has been established.

Atlantic City, Las Vegas and Indian reservations were the spots to go to.

People didn't want gambling near them, but they wanted a seedy place to go to. (The neighborhood around Atlantic City was awful last time I went there)

Now there are many ways to legally gamble.

Maybe society's view of gambling has immoral has softened.

Or maybe government officials and voters just like the tax revenue it generates when legalized.

ELLEN: I hope you kids have learned something about the dangers of gambling.

CLARK: No, no, Sparklet. Don't blame gambling. Gambling is what made America great. You see, kids, when Columbus set sail on a little rickety boat... ...and let it ride to the New World on a single tank of gas... ...that was a gamble. Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison... ...Albert Einstein, all gamblers. - Wasn't Einstein German? - Hard to tell from his accent, Russ. But I do know one thing. When a beautiful young blond co-ed... ...took a chance on a gangly boy of a man named Clark... ...she was taking a gamble too.

An economist's main objection to gambling is that a sophisticated relatively neutral agent is offering a slate of actuarially unfair games to unsophisticated consumers. That being said, there is plenty of information about the payoffs of the games in the casinos. It may be that some users are mathematically illiterate.

The posts should differentiate between gambling and calculated risks that have an expected positive rate of return commensurate with the risk. The former might be a dead weight loss, the latter drives productivity growth.

The problem with gambling is that expected returns are hugely negative and thus it is activity that doesn't fit into any rational capital framework.

ghi wrote:

Life is a gamble.

Why is gambling immoral?

Do you gamble?

it's not.

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False premise. Close the thread.

Gambling is not immoral. You are free to do what you want with your money. The only reason it has been labeled immoral is because the Christian religious movement wants that money to be diverted to them instead of the gaming industry.

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That's the Truth wrote:

Gambling is not immoral. You are free to do what you want with your money.

Can you hire a hitman?

Can you bribe a judge?

No Gamble, No Future

In_Ithaca wrote:

No Gamble, No Future

No risk, no reward.

Putting money money into something that has a 75% chance at a positive return is a risk vs. 100% chance at keeping your money if you do nothing.

Putting money into something that has a 48% or less chance at a positive return is a gamble.

If you continuously gamble you will always lose in the long run.

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