Quote from: BeGoods on May 07, 2019, 12:29:13 PM

Quote from: squatz1 on March 06, 2019, 02:47:58 AM

I know my statement may sound pretty hostile on this part of the board, though I'm not talking about the person who will buy a superbowl box or makes a friendly bet with someone over one big game. I think the degenerates are the people sitting around gambling on every game they can possibly gamble on.

I have friends like this, people that will gamble on Mexican Womens Tennis if they can win (or most likely lose) some money on the game. It's a crushing addicition that we've normalized in our culture to make it seem like it's just apart of life. It shouldn't be, and children at a young age should be stopped from gambling until they know the horrible outcomes that gambling can cause. I support every effort by regulators to stem out the bad actors in the gambling field in order to stop children from being hooked on this.

I'd like one of you to change my mind, or at least make me think different about gambling. Because as of right now, I have a pretty negative view on it.

It's natural that many people think badly about the influence of gambling. but in my opinion banning young people and make them stop to play gambling will be much more difficult, and that is not the way out. I think we can start socializing that gambling is not a place to generate wealth, because people who become addicts initially have that thought, make young people believe that gambling is just for fun. it's a better solution

Yepp, most of young people can't control emotion yet and gambling could easily take control of them. I sometimes believe that gambling is not good for underage cause when they lose, they will likely to use their emotion, instead of their mind and that's really bad for their future. I agree with your opinion that we need to teach young people that gambling is not a right way to make people rich, even we can be rich from gambling but it's extremely risky.