gambling is often seen as a harmful habit. my question to you is, in a completely free society, should someone be prevented from providing gambling services for the good of society?
from an individual point of view, it is everyone's choice to gamble or not to gamble. the management of your money is entirely up to you in a physical sense. but that doesn't change the fact that some people are going to go bankrupt, their lives are going to be very difficult with the existence of gambling. if it was up to you to allow gambling, knowing that it is inevitable when enough people are involved in gambling, would you consider it ethical?
do you think that things that can harm a person through their choices should be prevented, or is everyone responsible for their own decisions as long as they are not forced to make them?
There will be two types of comments on the subject of gamblers and addicted gamblers. If you are a controlled gambler where you are not putting much money behind gambling, just playing for entertainment and it is not having any negative impact on your family then I will leave that to the freedom of an individual and I think your society will not say much to you about it. But if you are an addicted gambler and you are spending a lot of money behind gambling and you have lost everything. Even its negative impact is destroying your life and the lives of all your family, then I will say that it is a social problem, it is not your personal problem. Because here you are not only ruining your own life but also ruining the lives of your wife and your son? daughter to whom you have no right.
You're addressing what most people avoid: once your own behaviours start harming the people you love, it's not only your problem anymore. Entertainment gambling is low-risk, self-contained, maybe even ceremonial. Destructive gambling is messy, keeps pulling you back in, and can quickly spread its damage to your finances and those around you. A little ritual is acceptable; but, society panics when it becomes disorganised
How are you expected to determine whether you're simply adjusting when the tech is messing about your head? Modern gambling is algorithmic hypnosis wrapped in UX dopamine hits. In such environment, "control" virtually becomes philosophical. Are we really independent in these systems? Alternatively are we simply predictable input?