Why is gambling immoral?

The laws against gambling were generally against those running an established with the odds in their favor.

X-Runner wrote:

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?

Yes, you probably can do that. It may not be a wise decision to do but you are free to do that. Just be aware of the consequences.

Periwinkle wrote:

Santa Reeya wrote:

Gambling irresponsibly is immoral. Playing in a casino for entertainment with disposable income is not.

"Disposable income" by whose definition? You, your wife, your kid who needs private occupational therapy services, your teen who wants to go to college, your 80-year-old mother who deserves a better retirement home?

To a chronic gambler, ALL income is disposable income.

I love when these "moral issues" threads start because I get to watch all the daddy issues babies who were hurt by someone with a gambling/alcohol addiction come out of the woodwork. These people have PTSD to the point where they can no longer allow themselves to have fun and think that *their* experience is the definitive one, *their* point of view can't possibly be wrong because *they're* the ones with experience. Cry me a river and go visit alchy daddy in rehab or the cemetery, wherever he is.

niceeeee

It's not immoral. It's just that churches and clergy don't want you spending money in casinos when you could be giving it to them. Therefore they found a way to eliminate the competition by labeling it "immoral".

I don't care about the morality aspect. I lived in Las Vegas for 24 years as a sports bettor. Most people should not gamble because they are addicted to decisions. That is the advantage for the house, not the juice. The house makes no decisions whatsoever, after the game is set forward. But the gambler is awash in subjective decisions, essentially inventing ways to lose. It is the reason the best sportsbook manager I ever worked for said his dream scenario was for every gambler to watch every sport all day every day. With that much information he knew they had no chance because they would totally lose sight of the wide scope in favor of overreacting to the last thing they saw.

Sports betting does have the equivalent of index funds but it's up to the gambler to find them. They are logical systems that grind out advantage based on historical trends. But instead of set and forget you have to identify the games that fit the systems and continuously invest. It worked very well for me. I took the winning and applied to the stock market beginning in late 2008. That timing was coincidental, not strategic. My mom caught MRSA and died in December 2008. I had to move back to Florida to help my elderly dad. My best system with the market has been to use index funds but handicap the sectors. With only 10 or 12 sectors it seemed possible to weight that many variables, as opposed to thousands and thousands of individual stock or mutual funds or ETFs. I decided I wanted to be high in technology and health care. The market is something like 24% technology while I've been at 37%. I realize that sector doesn't have to continue to overperform but the strategy has served me well. My logic is that I don't care about the occasional down years for technology and health care. The big years will more than make up for it.

It's immoral because mathematically the gamblers have no chance at all, but they still play, feeding the rich and producing no value for the society.

Only Man has "morals." He's the only one that needs them.

Somehow or other that was Mark Twain's comment on morality. (Probly from his The Damned Human Race.)

Is that gonna be flagged??? :(

I don`t think that gambling is immoral unless you have different skills at games like poker, arcade, slots, etc. Many people play poker and slots just for fun, and they are losing quite a lot because of that. I used to play in casinos before the pandemics. Thank God stopped me from losing more money. I was addicted to a drug. Now I am using: https://myadvisor.my/online-betting/horse/ because it`s exciting. I`ve been making quite a lot in the past three months. I make bets on different events, races and I win almost every time. I recommend you to do the same.

There has always been tension between gambling and religion. For example, Islam categorically forbids certain gambling activities and states that money earned through gambling is considered corrupt. In Christianity, however, the line between what is forbidden and what is permitted is somewhat blurred. Nevertheless, according to the Bible, many people argue that gambling is a sin, but there is still much debate about it. For example, I am a Christian, but I occasionally admit to playing poker 포커에이스 https://pokerace7.com/ . I don't see anything forbidden here. Maybe someone will disagree with me, but I think it's everyone's business.