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Not good to leave them alone if the affected person is our friend or relative since we can do something to help them by giving advice and if we just leave them because they are not really worth the help then maybe they might experience more the worst. So its good to give them advice so they can realize that everything they do is not good and they should not bet excessively so that no funds intended for more important matter used for gambling. They should learn from their mistake so they can correct their bad behaviors.
Although we don't have obligation to do this thing but for sake of humanity maybe a simple word of advice can help them to determine what's good and bad for them.
I'm sure the thing about word of encouragement is truly helps those who are in need, especially relatives or friends. But bear in mind, that we also must set boundaries for ourselves. Helping or handling addiction cases is not an easy job. So if the condition affects us in a personal manner, we should just direct them to the professional. Specifically in the context we can't help further, it should be okay to leave it as it is, instead of the problem is also affecting us.
When it comes on helping specially neither on our own family members or relatives or even on closest friend then it would be a normal approach since we do really care but on the sense that you are already spending
too much time and involving some finances then this is where we do really set limits because we cant really just that focused or priority someone and affecting our own finances specially if you do have a family.
You would be finding yourself to have those kind of engagement on trying out to advise or help someone but you had forgotten about your main priorities.
Going back into the topic in speaking about financing a gambler, if you are someone whose really that have a good winning rate and been followed or noticed by those wealthy fellas
then they might really be reaching upon you and might be dealing up with this kind of transaction on which you neither accept or not, you wont really be that so dumb
on not to know on what are the imposed risks on it specially it could connect about possible money laundering or some legal issues if possible.