In order to understand the psychology of gamblers, i have decided to come up few questions for discussions, and here is the first one.
Suppose that you are a responsible gambler who have allocated a certain portion of money to gamble each month. Now you came across a poor person/family who is in urgent need of money. Will you quit the gambling for that month and give the allocated money to the poor family or will you prefer to gamble as you can't live without gambling ?
This is a very interesting question!
I recently read about a psychological experiment. Priests were invited to give a lecture on the Good Samaritan. However, they had limited time to get to the church. On the way to the church, they met a beggar (this meeting was rigged). Only 10% of the priests stopped to help a poor person. Although in their minds they were thinking about the lecture on the Good Samaritan.
However, rigid planning and the fear of being late for the sermon prevented them from showing mercy. This, in my opinion, is a big drawback of rigid life planning. Rigid budgeting for gambling makes it impossible to spend this money on charity.
In general, a person who follows the concepts and rigidly plans his whole life becomes inflexible and cannot quickly respond to new situations. That is, this applies not only to gambling.