I mean I can understand being addicted to drugs, drinking, or porn. But I don’t get how some people can be addicted to spending hundreds of dollars a month on lottery tickets and think they are going to win anything significant.
Why do you think they do this?
Porn addiction and gambling are very different.
If you can understand a porn addiction its a little weird that you cant understand a gambling addiction
for one you just want what you cant have……….
most people addicted to gambling have a lack of self control
especially when it comes to gambling at games it has never been proven you can win or have the expectation to winning, the addict is oblivious to the odds and math against them and lottery or scratch tickets have a worse House edge if you want to call it that than slot machines, its pretty bad!
For the gambler and liker of lottery scratch tickets they think they are going to be the one to beat the odds, lotteries do advertise that its easier to win than it really is and while they don’t fraudulently advertise, they bend the truth a little.
No one likes to admit defeat and losing, most gambling urges are fueled by the idea of "just one more" lives have been lost, dreams have been crushed and people have wasted millions if not more chasing a dream!
***edit – the point I was trying to make about gambling and porn – is BOTH are addicitions of choice – there is no chemical dependency. Both are a case of choice and not knowing whats acceptable in terms of when to quit. Also both problems have the same negative connotation to the mass public who is NOT affected. Both Gambling and Porn people who have no interest in either tend to scoff and roll their eyes and think its just so silly and stupid how people can become afflicted and addiction to such a thing!