Quote from: Dunamisx on July 20, 2025, 03:24:05 PM

Gambling is still more preferred to me than drinking, because gambling is for fun and we are not going to compare doing it to that of drinking, because when one gets drunk, they go out of their senses, which can also make them to misbehave at any point, but in gambling, you don't experience such, except you can't manage to take risk and precautionary measures, the two could be ideally accepted if done in a moderate manner.

An at first glance, it may be preferable to be a gambler than a drinker, that is true, because the "downfall" of someone who is alcoholic is faster than more obvious than someone who suffers from gambling addiction, but still I would not under-estimate the seriousness behind being addicting to staking money, I have seen people who even look to be out their senses and do not seem to rationalize when they are gambling, as if they were in a race to lose the most money possible in the shortest period of time.

Would not you say someone who borrows money to gamble is out their senses? I would...