Re: How do you evaluate that you're still gambling responsibly?
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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?
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?
For one to compare himself with others to say gamble responsibly, you should have evaluated your financial capacity, if it's in the same level with the people you're comparing yourself with, secondly for you to say that you're gambling responsibly you must have had a properly set standard which you follow, such as gambling budget, as in the maximum amount based on your earnings, the number of times you have to bet and you call it a day, after all the set standards and you find out you no longer keep to it, there's no way you can tell me you're still gambling responsibly, irresponsible gambling doesn't happen overnight, it a graduall process and you're gone with time.
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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?
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?
For one to compare himself you should have evaluated financial capacity, if it's in the same level with the people you're comparing yourself with, secondly for you to say that you're gambling responsibly you must have had a properly set standard which you follow, such as gambling budget, as in the maximum amount based on your earnings, the number of times you have to play and you call it a day, after all the set standards and you find out you no longer keep, there's no way you can tell me your gambling tell me that you are gambling responsibly, irresponsible gambling doesn't happen overnight, it a graduall process and you're gone with time.