Well, one can certainly hope for those people to get their life straight once again, but that but indeed take them for them to reach some rock bottom, until realizing what they are doing is wrong and it is not sustainable. Many do, I think; I have seen reddit pages and forums dedicated for people who once were gamblers and now they are recovering from that addictions and craving for more and more risk.
On the other hand, if you have paid some attention to this section of the forum for a while I am sure you have encountered stories about people going into crime, crimes as far as kidnapping their own family members for ramson, so they could continue to feed their bottomless pit for gambling and sport betting.
In any case, I would admit I could not easily place a line on when one is being empathic for people like those and when once is minding other's businesses.
Everyone has the chance on changing up their lives and everything would really be that just according or depending on how they would be acting upon it. If they wont really be doing the right way or methods on how to control addiction then they would really be still failing in the end. At the moment that someone shares up some tough stories or condition that they do have towards gambling then it wont really be that a bad idea on giving out some piece of advise on which it could possibly enlighten them even more even with the most basic recommendation or suggestion.It might not really be something that could give out that direct effect but at least you have made yourself giving some advise to someone on their tough times. It wont really be costing you an arm and leg on at least
giving out those words on which could ease up somehow the struggle that they are into.