Quote from: JiiBs on May 10, 2025, 11:48:37 AM

The solution to gambling!

As a gambler, without having to specify on either you are an addicted gambler or a responsible gambler that actually knows how to manage his gambling behavior;

How does this kind of subject for a thread makes you feel?
You many at times I see gambling been presented in the wrong light and even then, it’s not be avoided. It makes me wonder, if a person would identify something wrong and still goes ahead to do it to themselves!
Is gambling really the problem or are we the problem?

The human mind as I see it is one that isn’t accustomed to accept fault and take blames. Very few persons in our world has learnt to be the offender, to take the hit even when they are not fully convinced.
If there are those that are able to manage their behavior around gambling and have no problem, why should we see gambling to be a problem other than ourselves to have problems with our behavior towards the gambling?

I really want to understand why is that because, it’s a little offensive and disrespectful to the line of business from my view point. Perhaps I can be convinced otherwise with some logical statements of fact!

Our mind is driven by feelings of pleasure, or if you need some more technical: By dopamine!!!

We need an immediate reward to feel pleasure and gambling offers this to us... so our mind gets used to this expectation of receiving an good rewards and the addiction "sets in" silently, often at a higher priority level than reason.

And I agree when you said that gambling is neutral because I really think that what make it good or bad are the peoples who use it in the right or wrong way. And regarding your question, I would answer with another one:

Do you think than peoples can consume alcoholic beverages without getting drunk? Or the problem is the alcoohol?

The fact that there is a risk in something doesn't make it a problem. The trigger will always be the person who is using it, in the same way that a knife can be used to prepare an food but also to be commit a murder.