Re: A Nigerian Father Rejects Son's Gambling Win

How do you see the father? Was he right by rejecting the son gambling win?

It depends on the actual perspective.
There is nothing wrong with gambling money in this case, but indeed for some people something like this will definitely cause controversy, especially for those related to spirituality and belief.
In some conditions, in my area, this kind of thing still happens a lot because parents believe that money from gambling, which is actually not allowed, according to them, has no benefits, which actually creates a condition where we get bad luck in the end.
It may happen to the father though in this case he may need it but he has a degree of discipline for gambling money because he may not gamble either.
Regardless of right or wrong, everyone has their own views on this matter and indeed we also cannot justify or blame the father's determination to refuse the money because he has his own commitments.

There are people who would really stick into their principle on which no matter how small or big the amount that they do get from gambling but if it does really involved on things which you do really prohibit or something that you cant deal off with then for sure you would really be having those impressions.It is really just that impossible though that someone could really just simply reject specially we are talking some significant amounts of money on here.This does proves out that there are really still people who cant be bought and just sticking into their principles on what they do believe on.

It can still happen and the proof is for this father because indeed he still refuses even though it really can support their life but he insists on holding back that desire and actually in my opinion it deserves appreciation. because indeed principles like this can be said to be quite rare at the moment and I cannot have strong principles like this for now.

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Yes, this is really matter of someones choice whether they would really be exchanging those things by money or not.It is really just that sad for that boy since he couldnt be able to enter into their house
with those money with him. I doubt that it would really be given back into that betting company but of course there would be no options left for that boy to do but actually he could just simply keep those
money in secret and would be telling that he had given it back to make things look right at least and the he had already the savings. Cheesy

After all, it already belongs to the child, regardless of what the father refused, it is the right of the child, now it depends on him, because of course he is also an adult and it's time for him to think from now on for his future. I think with this condition it would be a little naive for the kid to give back to the company for the victory he achieved. His father just refused the money, doesn't mean he forbade the child to have it, right?