toldailytopic: Is it immoral to gamble?

[zoo22]

looks like zoo should switch to bingo

:chuckle: I don't think I could take it.

Also, that post probably made it sound like I'm out playing poker 24 hours a day all the time... I don't. But I've played regularly for many years and I love the game. I like a good home game the best (I/friends had a weekly home game for about 15 years, which is sadly no more, but have been getting another together recently), but I love the card rooms too. There's nothing quite like poker.

... But then, I suppose there's nothing quite like bingo either

 

[Nydhogg]

so where do you stand of bingo addiction
or
don't you think it is a problem?

It's a symptom of a larger problem. Church people and old people (especially old church people) are typically bored out of their skulls for the whole day, everyday. Bingo exposes it.

They get on moderately addictive stuff (like gambling) and make it top priority. Sad but typical.


Fixing the boredom of old folks would greatly diminish the problem of bingo addiction.

 

[Nick M]

I might want to pry into his life and see how much he is being a hypocrit. Does he spend $3 for a cup of coffee, or is he overweight, which requires spending more money on food than staying fit does? What does he spend his entertainment dollars for and why is it any more moral than gambling? Why is an $8 movie more moral than $8 worth of lottery tickets? Maybe it's less, at least with the lottery he has some miniscule chance of a big payoff. Never heard of anyone getting that at a movie theator.

Are those really things you would want to pry into?

It isn't immoral to gamble. It is immoral for a man to be financial irresponsible as TG pointed out.

 

[Traditio]

Depends. If someone is gambling away a portion of his excess wealth and nothing else, than there's probably nothing wrong with that. On the other hand, if he's gambling away from what he requires to support himself (and his family?), then he's guilty of a grave moral wrong, in all likelihood.

Though, I must wonder about gambling away significant quantities, even if the amount gambled away is from one's excess. Such a person wrongs the poor, to whom he could have donated what he is gambling.

 

[MrDeets]

I think Kenny Rogers answered this question YEARS ago... "know when to hold em' know when to fold em', know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your chickens while you're sitting at the table, there will be time enough for counting when the cooking's done." Or something like that! Or maybe it was people in glass houses sink ships!:dunce:

 

[aSeattleConserv]

only you could expose the serious problem of bingo

aSeattleConservative takes a bow.

Keep in mind that bingo parlors aren't as they used to be. Every Indian casino has one (and practically every State has a dozen or so Indian casinoes). It's just another way of alluring people into the harmful and addictive vice of gambling.

 

[Lighthouse]

aSeattleConservative takes a bow.

Keep in mind that bingo parlors aren't as they used to be. Every Indian casino has one (and practically every State has a dozen or so Indian casinoes). It's just another way of alluring people into the harmful and addictive vice of gambling.

Can you support the idea that it is always harmful and addictive?