It's impossible for everyone to stop or cancel gambling activities in their life, due to the fact that some player's life got crashed because of addiction. Every good thing has a bad side. The experience you had with your father OP, isn't simple. I understand what path of life you're walking on, and the emotional troubles you've faced because of your dad's addiction. This thread shows how bad you think of gambling, the best thing to do is not to engage in gambling activities. As you're more vulnerable to addiction, if you do. Living with a gambling addict, growing up, affects a child emotionally. Such kids grow up with pains, little or no parental care, get neglected and their father has no time to teach or question them about what's troubling them. Crypto is great as a substitute, yet I encourage severe precautions, for OP, while venturing in to crypto. Also no need to blame your dad for all that, pick yourself up and dust the past, then move on to a better life. Unlike Op, some kids will grow up to be like their father, that would be a catastrophe to the family.
There are no unified laws in the world that made gambling absolutely bad and make other professions good. It is all about beliefs and Culture. Some people do not gamble and they do not also promote anything that is related to gambling. It is bad to handle gun and kill, yet some persons still handle gun and kill unofficially.
There are ountries that approves people to handle gun in the same way, there are some other countries that do not approve that their citizens handle gun.
In as much as the forum has connection with some kind of freedom. That is why everybody has the right to promote whatever they have to promote in as much as it's legal and lawful in your country and international illegal. Gambling is very bad when it is done in extreme, yet people have fun gambling.
The way people reason and take actions cannot be the same. They are law makers who gamble, they can't cancel or ban gambling in their constituency or country. I like your response, because it portrays the both ways of seeing things. In as much as how bad gambling can be to some culture or beliefs, many others use it as a fun activity and spend time and money to gain happiness in gambling. Whatever activity should be moderated or it'll cause a backward progress to people engaged to such activity, due to excessive abuse of such activity. When one doesn't look into their gambling activity, it's bad. Everywhere in the world. And it's impossible to control everybody in the world to moderate how they spend money in gambling. Hence, societies, families, organizations etc are expected to have gambling addicts amongst them. Nothing can be done about it. Whereas the relatives to a gambling addicts are also looked upon to hate gambling entirely, due to the havoc it may have caused them. Like in Op's case. So, the increase of people who hate gambling will always surface in the society.
Everything is possible as long as we want it to happen; the only problem is that our heart wants it but our mind doesn't want it. That's why gambling is still often fun. Maybe it's hard for a gambling addict to stick to the routine of entering any casino here at the casino.
It would be okay to be addicted to the casino if it gave us a good life; the only problem is that usually the result is not always good when there is a gambling addiction that affects and destroys family and relationships with close friends.