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Is it good to gamble or play the lottery?

No! Definately not. And I will motivate my opinion.

Gambling isn’t good because there is only one winner (or maybe a few), and many players.

To enter, everybody needs to spend some money, and they all expect to win in return.

But since there’s only one winner, there are many losers - and they tend to get angry, become frustrated, depressed, and sometimes curse the ones who win… all these things are leading to even more negative effects.

Money won by gambling or playing the lottery aren’t good money because they don’t require any work. Each one of the participants dreams to get extremly rich, just by luck.

These easy-earnings lead only to some really bad things.

Gambling is a serious addiction for some. There are some gamblers who are so hooked on their vice that it can even lead them to suicide.

More, gambling fosters a “something for nothing” attitude and promotes materialism and destroys the work ethic.

The gambling’s get-rich-quick appeal is mocking capitalism’s essential values: disciplined work habits, thrift, prudence, adherence to routine, and the relationship between effort and reward. Gambling replaces these values with greed and selfishness.

Gambling is also a major cause of family neglect.

Many of the social costs associated with gambling come from its mindset. As people get caught up in a gambling frenzy, they begin to neglect their families.

Governments should provide order in society and promote public virtue. Legalized gambling subverts the morals of society through greed and selfishness. Legalized gambling also depresses businesses, because it diverts money that could have been spent in the capital economy into gambling, which does not stimulate the economic growth.

In the end, no one knows for sure what are the real social costs of gambling, or how many players will become addicted and ruin their lives once they start playing… today’s society is playing with people’s minds on a very huge scale (suggested reading: the “brainwashing” industry).

Gambling undermines the moral foundations of society and invites corruption in government. Today’s society already has poor moral values, let’s not worsen the situation even more.

Do you gamble?