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 ?
If it's very urgent and really an emergency then why not there are times for gambling and a time to do good deeds, you see good deeds go a long long way, and it's only one month and you can always find a way to get money if you have a good job or a business, I can live without gambling for a month because I am not that addicted to gambling that I will let other people suffer in exchange for my gambling activity.
Everyone have the same thought, but when it comes to reality we don't do it. We won't mind losing on gambling, but we find it hard to support a person in need. I remember few threads that have been created to support the flood affected countries. Very few have contributed to it. If we all can support with a week's payment that could've made a big change. So, reality and discussion completely differs.