can we call whatever we win in gambling a profit? Not that don't I agree with what you've posted and I admit I am not good in english but is profit and winnings from gambling the same?

Best post on this entire farming thread.

I don't think it's a good thing. It's a business that's built by abusing the mental problems of a lot of people. It's possible for it to just be fun, but for many that's not how it is.

Well i personally know a guy who won 20,000€ on gambling, he played poker and craps and one lucky day he won the big one.

He had good discipline and stopped right there. He bought himself a car, and rest deposited into the bank after taxes.

The keyword with gambling is discipline, but many people can get emotional, if they werent, then they would win most of the times.

Yes playing for pleasure is correct but after once you start gambling very difficult to control it so at the end people will loss more so it is better to avoid completely.

And that pleasure can lead to addiction which will really ruin someone's life.

Avoiding it completely is kinda difficult , just gamble wisely and moderately.

Sometimes human can't control their greed to achieve more and more that's why new bettor try to gamble some and when he get addicted, even his/her family must help him from gambling addiction before going deeper..

gambling..well, this really depends.

generally is imho fine to play for money. somebody betting horses, cockfighting or sport matches, somebody playing poker, pool or darts..and somebody playing dice for bitcoin. it is same..until it is for excitement and fun and not for profit and cover loss.

sadly, human nature contains greed and some of us don't know when to stop. money are not on trees but not everybody around is smart enough to realize it. guess why those gambling wrecks are usually handled as stupids even before they started..

It's not wrong...whether it's a good idea depends, and no, it's not inherently the profitable thing to do as gambling in 99% of cases has a negative expected value (except, for instance, if you play odds). But it's not morally wrong, unless you start committing crimes to feed an addiction for it.