Spending more than our budget is bad.
Let's face the real fact, spending on gambling, more than we budgeted for it is not what is bad or makes it bad, what really makes spending too much on gambling bad is when or if we win nothing in the process.
Let's say for example, I budgeted to spend $100 on gambling today, and in the process of gambling, I won $8000, and at the end of the day, I ended up spending $1000 on that particular day on gambling, this simply means that I spent more than I budgeted which is $100, but then also, even though I spent more than I budgeted, I still have a profit of about $7000, which in real sense isn't bad at all.
All of us want to have a portion of our income for fun and relaxing and gambling makes no difference to watching movies, drinking liquor, shopping, or traveling.
I put it to you that you are mistaken, gambling is never the same thing as watching movies or drinking liquor, traveling or shopping, but I can sure say that gambling Is one end of a stick, while watching movies, traveling, etc is another end.
In gambling, you are taking a risk which could lead to lose of money and time, or winning more money while loosing time, but in watching movies, you are simply loosing time and not loosing or making money in return.