Is gambling bad to our society?

Question

please help i need for my argumentation class and i need to know y is gambling bad... and how serious is gambling. pls be specific y and pls help

Answer 1

1.  Gambling is often seen as a tax on people who don't know any better.  Some people just play it for fun, but others put their life savings into it and think that they can get a return.  This decimates their savings and causes them to rely on government or charity assistance.

2.  Gambling can destroy a family.  If an individual chooses to gamble, that's fine--they might destroy their own savings, but they don't affect anyone else, so it's their own misery.  If someone in a family gambles away the life savings of the family, it sends them all into poverty.

3.  Gambling addiction is a well-known psychiatric problem.  These individuals cannot stop gambling, and WILL destroys their savings as a result.  They will even borrow money so that they can gamble it.  Casinos (and other gambling establishments) prey on people with a mental disorder to make money.

4.  The house always wins.  Despite many schemes that people come up with, the casino (or whoever is running the gambling circuit; for example, a state lottery means that the state will always come out with more money at the end than it started with) always ends with more money than it started with.  When used for entertainment, this isn't a big deal.  You pay money in the form of buying your ticket or placing money down on a card game, you gain the entertainment of watching the numbers or playing the game, and you go away with nothing.  When used for investment, it fails--only a very small percentage of people will walk away from a casino or a lottery with more money than when they entered.

5.  Gambling is often mixed with alcohol or other drugs.  For example, casinos will serve free drinks at their tables.  Alcohol reduces your ability to make good decisions (such as to stop gambling when you are low on money or can't afford it).  These establishments purposefully try to prey on judgment-impaired individuals to cause them to lose more money.

Answer 2

ask the british government

Answer 3

Gambling is like any other vice.  It depends upon the locus of control of the person doing the gambling.  For a person with a tendency toward addiction, it is a very bad thing.  

I only went to a casino one time but the one image I remember was the "loser's club".  There was a line of people who lost so much that they got a free meal and a bus ride home.  They looked like a lineup of bedraggled souls.  I also saw people lined up at the ATM machines time after time.  

Some people can just sign up for the day's trip one or two times a year and have a good time with friends.  They have fun no matter what they are doing and do not obsess over the gambling part.  

Relate your argumentation to the part about obsessive compulsive habits and addiction for the negitive side.... and to the tax base and what the donations of the casinos do to help the local economy for your positive.