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.
It is a threat of course as you can see most of the gamblers are having a higher percentage of losing rather than winning and as what you have said being addicted is the big threat to all the gamblers. Even if we will start to gamble as a hobby or to have fun but if you are going to continue to, you will not notice that you are already addicted to it.
But for those who really have a control then it is not a threat for them especially if they are only using the small percentage of their extra money as their capital in gambling. For gamblers, make sure that you still have a control of yourself and don't be greedy.