This question is always on my mind since then until now. I want to know the opinion of everyone here on this platform. I know that we have all different perception about gambling, so I respect what will be your point of view about that.
But to share my opinion, I consider gambling as a threat to gamblers. Yes, there are a lot of people who find happiness in gambling if and only if they can control their selves from this, but no matter how fun can gambling gives to you, the problem is still there, the addiction on it is always there, it grows day by day. There are so many disadvantages of being so addicted in gambling, one of which is forgetting your priority, spending your time to your family and your friend, you won't be able to more productive things than losing money, to the point that even you already lose and don't have enough money to play, you will make ways, there are times that you will ask a request to your friend to give you money as debt. You should be the one who controls the gamble and don't let the gamble control you.
Gambling can be a threat or fun depending on the discipline of the user. As a gambler we should play responsible and we should know it from the beginning. A lot of people become addicted because they tend to chase money they do not realize that they are ending up as an addict. Worse thing is that they use debt just to play and this was not a good thing to do. You can gamble if you have a budget but you don't have it is better to work and earn money.
It's much better to use spare money and not to allow you to go deeper to the point that you'll going to barrow money or to do something not usual just to please your gambling activities. Gambling will be fun if you understand the risk, since there's always potential that it can hurt your budgets and most of your savings will be taking away from you if you got addicted to this business.