Quote from: Su-asa on Today at 05:30:54 AM

Quote from: Fiatless on December 25, 2023, 07:20:50 AM

Recently I was around a physical bet shop close to my area and I observed a man who was shabbily dressed walking in the gambling house. I got into the place to observe what his intentions were. He walked straight to the gaming attendant, placed his bets in a highly coordinated manner and quietly walked out of the physical gambling house. From the way he was well organized, you will never know that he was mentally unsound apart from his dirty clothes and unkept hair and beard.

When I inquired from the attendant, she said he was a regular customer and that he usually raised money for gambling through the manual jobs he does around the area. She also told me that he has never misbehaved and acted violently in the gambling house so she was comfortable with him.

My question now is are there any moral, ethical or legal obligation to bar a person from gambling after physically observing that he is mentally unstable?

Gambling addiction can be considered to be a mental disorder then for someone who isn't mentally stable to engage in it can only cause more harm than good. Gambling involves some sort of stability to start with, someone who isn't mentally coordinated can't just go into it, how can a mentally unstable gambler make logical decisions if he isn't in the right State of mind? Mental disorders goes beyond wearing dirty clothes or having unkept hairs some people dress properly but are not mentally okay

Where stress free people are often confused when it comes to gambling decisions, when a person who is ill or mentally unstable becomes addicted to gambling, it will be difficult for them to make the right decisions. They will engage in gambling but the outcome of gambling is unlikely to be as expected by them. Although there is luck in gambling, but if you do not take proper decisions, the luck will go far away. One thing I have been able to observe very well in betting is that if I am mentally happy and can gamble without any stress then my gambling results are comparatively better but when I am not mentally ready or going through any stress then the result will not be much expected.