[abigailsmybaby]

The stock market is a gamble. Is that moral while gambling in Vegas or an Indian casino is immoral?

I just don't see a whole lot of difference. Besides, it's my money. I can do with it whatever I want and I will suffer whatever consequences come around.

[little jeremiah]

later read/pingout.

[Torie]

It is evil, evil, period, in the sense of government in any way fostering it. It costs consumers money, it causes addiction, and destroys families, fosters crime, and corrupts the political system (gambling interests pump tens of millions into the political systems, and hordes of legislative hacks are now their creatures, bought and paid for). The thought that government sponsers it as a money raiser makes my skin crawl. The thought that so call Native Americans are given a monopoly to do it untaxed (or undertaxed), makes me nausious. The thought that slot machines (the most addictive kind of gambling, since you get "gratification" about every 6 seconds; the more reps, the more the addiction) are coming to a neighborhood near you within easy driving distance from work in major urban area, is just squirting lighter fluid on the fire, since so many more will become addicted through repetition.

Just say no, damn it. No, I say.

[tarheelswamprat]

I dunno, but we do it every Election Day.

[philetus]

Nothing wrong with playing a game of chance for entertainment purposes, as long as you can afford it.

When you're spending your entire welfare check on lotto, and I've seen women do it, it's stupid.

[Theophilus]

For me, gambling is like salt on food. A nominal amount can make the outcome of a difference of opinion, a game of skill or a fanatic sporting event more delicious. We all love to get one over and I even enjoy the joy of my rival when I lose. It's worth the price of admission.

Gambling against the house; or to get rich quick; or for a living is like eating salt for the winner and being salt for the loser. It's disgusting and unpalatable. It is one of the lowest forms of the worship of money. I don't believe in "chance" or "Lady Luck" or any of the other nasty, lying consorts of Mammon. God knows nothing contingently. Don't try to tempt Him.

I utterly hate the lottery as a stupid tax, a disruption of commerce and the abuse of the dependents of fools and the hopeless. It is the evil "do as I say, not as I do"/"the end justifies the means" offspring of socialism and vice.

[Ichneumon]

[fish hawk]

If gambling is immoral, there goes Wall Street.