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?
For me that gambling game depends on our perspective in responding. when we consider gambling as a source of income then it will be a problem, consider gambling as entertainment. When we consider gambling as an entertainment, it will make us comfortable and we can avoid the bad effects of addiction. Make sure we can play comfortably and so our thinking will feel much better and full of calm.
It's OP's own interpretations and like what you have said it's depends from one interpretations to another, embracing gambling in such points of view
might differ from people/gamblers ways of dealing with it, you have to be more wise and careful engaging yourself to this activities as effects might
harmed you if you can't handle it properly.