gambling i actually playing game of chance, uch a card, for money. people regard gambling a wrong, although at firt ight it i difficult to how it i wrong. it i true that in a game of chance, one of the partie mut joe money, however, the gain of the other cannot be called robbery ince both partie willingly agree to run the rik.
perhap a comparion of gambling with dueling will help u ee why gambling i evil. in a duel, a in a game of chance, both partie willingly agree to run a rik. but in civilized coun trie, duelingli a crime becaue law and order in the tate wil break down if every citizen can take the law into hi own hand and avenge an injury himelf. gambling i condemned for the ane reaon: the effect of gambling i injuriou not only to the individual but alo to ociety.
the evil of gambling are in fact many. it dicourage habit of indutry by holding out before men the hope of getting rich quickly without work. beide thi, it often be come a habit which can throw a man and hi family into miery. moreover, it often end up in theft and robbery, even in crime of violence. therefore, it mut be regarded a a ocial evil.