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GAMBLING
According to Prof. Bergler that the tendency to gamble is found in every person and in some personalities this latent tendency can be awakened. Once it is awakened the person becomes actual gambler. This tendency is hereditary and once this person is brought into a conduce environment for gambling, his nerves becomes crammed. A confirmed gambler is neither gullible nor greedy. It is clearly held that hectic gambler understand perfectly well that the odds against him are overwhelming and he notoriously refuse to stop when he is winning and that he naturally wants to suffer the excruciating thrill of losing. The feeling aroused by winning or losing are interwoven with guilt feeling in his head that full satisfaction is impossible in any case.
In his book "Psychology of gambling" Prof. Bergler classified gamblers of two types. One is habitual and other casual. Habitual gambler is known to possess six characteristics inevitably.
Gambling is a typical, chronic and repetitive experience in his life.
Gambling absorbs all other interests in life.
He is pathologically optimistic about winning and never learns anything from his losses.
He cannot stop when he winning.
No matter how great his initial caution the true gambler eventually risks more than he can afford.
He seeks and enjoys the enigmatic thrill of losing and winning, which cannot be logically explained as it is compounded of as much pain as pleasure.
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CARDS ARE WAR IN DISGUISE OF SPORT - CHARLES LAMB (English Author)
Cards are devils books. Said another author.
A Gambler is an idle person depending upon chance and hates work. He is a parasite living upon the earning of others. Gambling promotes idleness, dishonesty and other vices in the society. It leaves pernicious influence upon the character of those habituated to it. The inveterate gambler regards it as easiest way to make good fortune, heedless of the fallacy underlying his motion; he gives himself to it completely that with infrequent result of bringing about his total financial ruin. Ordinary pursuits of life possess little attraction for him. Moral degradation and concomitant result of poverty soon over takes his life. He sometimes resorts to crime such as theft and extortion to find money for gambling. Occasionally it even results committing of homicide of near and dear. Some times utter disappointment compels him to commit suicide. Gambling begins to dominate gamblers life and reduces him to derelict status in society.
FAMILY RELATIONSHIP:
This evil is not confined to him alone and every one who comes into touch with him runs the risk of contacting the vice with its dangerous consequences. Poverty at home and absence from home soon rocks his family relationship leading ultimately to family disorganization. As parenting responsibility is conspicuous by its absence, children run the risk of getting into bad company and eventual collapse of edifice of whole family economically, socially and morally.
Stocking Collis, a renowned social scientist while explaining about the term Gambling, defined the same as follows.
The term Gambling designates the deliberate waging or staking of important or valuable considerations upon events which so far as parties of the wager know lie in the realm of pure chance or luck.
Oxford dictionary explains the word Gamble as to play game of chance with money especially for unduly high stakes''.
Dr. Bergler a professor in Social sciences, is of the view that gambling is not only something done with cards and dice, it concerns more than betting on horses, roulette or number racket and it takes many forms among them is business speculation.
He divided gambling activity into three categories
Games of pure chance eg. Cards, dice, roulette
Games in which chance is combined with reasoning eg. Stock market, horse racing etc.,
Game of pure reasoning eg. Chess, However the devotees of games of pure chance live in a world apart from the adherents of game of reasoning.
The popular concept of gambler is that he is one person who wants to make as much money as he can with the least expenditure of time and effort.
Prof. Reckless Walter in his book 'The Crime Problem'' remarks that the following media are widely utilised in gambling.
Cards
Dice
Lottery and number games
Horse races
Sports and athletic contests
Automatic machines
[He did not include speculation as gambling]
The popular concept of gambler is that he is one person who wants to make as much money as he can with the least expenditure of time and effort.
Prof. Reckless Walter in his book 'The Crime Problem'' remarks that the following media are widely utilised in gambling.
Cards
Dice
Lottery and number games
Horse races
Sports and athletic contests
Automatic machines
[He did not include speculation as gambling]
In the simplest form speculation is act of buying or selling commodities, securities or rights in order to benefit from changes in prices. In so far as the speculator is governed by rational calculations based on factual data however inadequate, the transaction is essentially commercial. When he buys or sells in blind hope of market price fluctuation turning to his favour; he is gambling. Speculation and gambling have one thing in common, they try to undermine the appreciation of value of money besides value of work. Both involve in the same unpleasing willingness, to profit by the misfortune of others and the same temptation to risk more than one can afford to loose.
A speculator is so pathological gambler.
Dr. Bergler classifies three kinds of speculator.
The non-gambling, one time speculator who succeeds in making a kill and retires. But they are exceptionally rare.
The small speculator, he is small in the sense of money involved. He is a man who spends every free minute of his life in broker office or phones his broker hundred times a day.
The big speculator gambler. He is distinguished with his "LARGE CONCEPT" of his knowledge of business and intution etc.,
Wagering is described as one in which two persons holding opposite view over a future uncertain incident, while professing its occurrence, thereby one shall win a sum of money or other stake. Both parties have little to do with the event.
Where as in a bet, it may not be regarding the future uncertain incident and may be upon a past event.
While gaming in its ordinary sense means that there must be a game of contest and participation of betters as players and as on lookers. The elements of chance or uncertainty of results is common in all the above kinds of gamblings.
