Re: How do you evaluate that you're still gambling responsibly?

Quote from: Crypto Library on November 14, 2025, 08:18:06 PM

Quote from: DubemIfedigbo001 on November 12, 2025, 04:23:35 PM

I was advising a junior colleague who obviously is gambling excessively with respect to his earnings and in self defense he pointed out to me some others who were worse than himself as a vindication of his own already bad practice.

Of a truth, the people he referred to are 5X worse than him and it was obvious they started from his level and degraded to a worse condition. I tried pointing out to him that measuring excessive gambling is a self evaluation with respect to your finances and not using others as a yardstick of measurement but he dismissed my with the words "As long as I'm not yet gambling like these guys, I'm fine".

I'm sure this mindset exists especially among friends who are into gambling and I decided to bring it up here for discussion.

Do you think it's right to reference to others as a yardstick to evaluate your level of responsible gambling?

How do you measure yours?

Actually, the logic that your junior colleague has shown is completely illogical. For example, if a person sees thousands of people committing suicide in front of him and at the same time he sees very few people living a good life, then which path will he choose? Of course, if he is mentally normal, he will not want to go down the path of suicide. She/he will choose him after living a simple and good life to save her/his own life.

Actually from my perspective I think responsible gambling is not a very difficult task, just that initially you have to control your greed and at the same time you have to use gambling only for entertainment purposes. I still bet responsibly mainly because of these two reasons.

The junior colleague is only being proud and not ready to own up to his mistakes, maybe the environment they were when OP was mentioning it to him affected his ego somehow and he made those comments only to save face, just maybe. You know, some people can do or say anything just to save face. OP would you practice calling him in a private environment and maintain what you said earlier citing that you've his interest at heart and that's why you arranged for a second meeting. Maybe that can get him more cool headed to reason better and see you record positive results.