I will agree that I cannot understand people who do not at least themselves understand the entertainment value from gambling. I enjoy gambling, I play poker an

I will agree that I cannot understand people who do not at least themselves understand the entertainment value from gambling. I enjoy gambling, I play poker and blackjack. You can consistently be the best player at the table in poker, but blackjack is an obvious scam. I never show up expecting to win, I don't derive entertainment from imagining I won, I derive entertainment from the competitive experience of the game itself, elevated by stakes. I also healthily limit myself to gambling only once in a very blue moon. But that's because my motivations are different, and not driven by desperation. We aren't the ones who need protecting. It's the desperate who are not in a position to make rational decisions and self-regulate.