Re: How do you evaluate that you're still gambling responsibly?
by on 11/12/2025, 20:48:28 UTC
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?
I realise am gambling excessively when I use up money not meant for gambling to gamble, or use more than what am meant to use for gambling to gamble. At that point, I feel so bad that I have done the wrong thing, and i try to avoid it and stay away from such wrong gambling attitude.
Measuring another ones reckless gambling attitude to yours and trying to encourage yourself to continue your bad gambling act is very wrong and must be stopped. Gambling must be checked, only gamble with what you can afford to loose, and for those who gamble almost with all there salaries, of course, you can't afford to loose all your salary, they are meant to settle family issues and then save up some, so if you squandered all to gambling, then it's a big problem for you