Gambling

In a narrow sense, the term. "gambling" means playing for money and engaging in wild financial speculations.I feel that this is the core of the act of gambling - resorting to the element of chance or luck, when all one's powers of reasoning cannot influence one's decisions.There are many, many times in a man's life when he has to make a decision, and he finds that he does not know which course will benefit him.Gambling which most moralists consider evil need not be always evil. This kind of excessive indulgence is harmful and it becomes a vice, just as drinking to excess or smoking to excess are smaller vices. Sometimes small sums of money spent by people at games like "mahjong" are considered worth it because they provide entertainment.The trouble with most people is that they start off with small sums and end up with colossal debts.But you exceed the limits when you gamble and find that your gambling is robbing you of your minimum comforts of life.

Buying toto coupons or lottery tickets constitutes gambling. But when one buys these, he is in actual fact helping his fellow men. it also satisfies the gambling urge in most men.Why, then, does society frown upon gambling, and why is it that the police keep such a watchful eye on gamblers and places. Why, then, does society frown upon gambling, and why is it that the police keep such a watchful eye on gamblers and places.

Some people refrain from gambling because they feel that it is morally wrong to risk money that has been earned by hard work.The word "gambling" has acquired unpleasant connotations largely because gambling can lead to excess. There are two times when a man should not gamble - when he has no money and when he has money".