Most of the time in gambling you are losing probably, i don't see any good effects from gambling, except having fun when you are winning, with losing there are many bad effects like, you can get depressed by losing a lot of money, its easy to get addicted to gambling so you can make problems to your family by getting money from them, i had one friend doing this but he is okay now .
This is why most advises not to be addicted in gambling. Because it has good and bad effects indeed, once you cannot control in playing addiction is sometimes hard to control. Those effects above are true once we become addicted in playing gambling.
Because they are thinking that gambling can may be a source of income that's why they are still chasing money on it.
Gambling is not bad if you know how to control this, and don't let gambling controls you anytime just always put in your mind that gambling addiction is hard to control so while it is earlier much better to avoid that happen.
Gambling for me is an entertainment that brings me a thrill and excitement when I was playing and that relieved my stress after whole day work.
Most of the time in gambling is not losing its waiting for your good hand on poker, winning streaks in other games, bmyou wait bonuses if game has it. How will you deal with loses will make you a man from you, loses are part of life, not just gambling. By your comments I would say that you are not gamblers, you are just giving your opinion about something you didn't try, your look from a side but you didn't participate more then couple times, and you lost every time you tried.
Gambling is more then winning and losing, when you start to think about the game you will understand what am I talking about. You need to feel the game and try to beat the game with your brain, with moves you make.