I have never seen any place, real life or online, embrace gambling as much as this forum has. A little bit of gambling is okay but when you do it with the hope of making money it becomes a problem. The house ALWAYS wins. I see so many people here throw their money away at these online casinos.
I just banned myself from the casino IRL yesterday after losing $40 at Blackjack. I got 18, and the dealer got 20. See? It doesn't matter how good you are at the game, the odds are always stacked against you.
If this forum were embracing drug addiction, don't you think it wouldn't look as good?
Addiction, generally is bad thing. But people get addicted for something like gambling i think it is not a big problem since they can control their finance. Because addicted wouldn't make us crazy and do bad thing to make our pleasure.