Playing with control and a healthier mindset will enable us to play gambling more thoroughly and responsibly, gamble with money that we are ready to lose and don't chase high wins, enough to have fun and enjoy gambling will keep the desire away from continuing to gamble with a healthy mindset will help prevent us from becoming an addict.
Since this is possible then why do we keep seeing some people being under addiction or found with one or more abnormality attached to their gambling lifestyle experience, we have some benefits and advantages meant for us to have by default without any more discomforts coming in along with them than when we on our own way introduced some to our gambling experience, we have the control to this and what we determine to see is what we do and put in more efforts which turns to be either we are gambling responsibly or not.
This happens because people still have the choice to do whatever they want, even if this goes against their self-interests, and in fact this is very common and starts from a very early age, after all who has not seen a kid which does not like to eat vegetables or that refuses to go and see the dentist?
A parent could explain why doing certain activities we may not like could be for the better, but at the end the kid still does not want to do it, and this is the same, we all know what we need to do to keep our gambling under control, but if a person does not want to follow that advice then that is their decision and we cannot do anything to change it.
Still ends up with the self-will of the person, I like that example and it was a good comparison even it's clear in our mind that gambling can harm us without proper control we still continue and we still test our limitation, to the point that we exceed from the target and that's where the problem begins, without strong system inside you to prevent or avoid yourself to engage that much, you are still prone to addiction, we cannot conclude anything as it's really self acceptance and self base opinions.
Very good point, gambling in itself has always been a self will thing, I've never come across any body who claimed to be forced into gambling..
Gambling is always a self made decision, atleast until the gambler becomes addicted, that time, we cant say for sure if it's still a self made decision, like a friend of mine who was heavily addicted told me one time that he wants to stop gambling but don't know how, I told him to just stop, but he said he tried several times, but only time is doesn't gamble is when he doesn't have money, as soon as money enters his hands, he only comes back to his senses after he has gambled the whole money away, this shows how bad gambling addiction can be.