Sometimes you might be confused by the statement that gambling can destroy people. However, after careful consideration, I've come to the realization that the problem isn't gambling, but rather the person's inability to control themselves. It's their greed that destroys them.
Even if a greedy person doesn't gamble, they'll experience destruction in other areas.
I agree, sometimes, it's not gambling that destroys people's personal lives, families, or futures. It's the individual's own infatuation with gambling. However, we can see from the perspective that if someone hadn't gambled, they might not have been ruined. That's how non-gamblers view a gamblers. They see things differently. For you, and all those who gamble, they will say that it is not gambling that destroys them, because they already understand that gambling is only an effect, while the cause is that the gambler bets without thinking about his own future.