The other day someone was talking about how he hates gambling as it nearly ruined his life, and within my mind I was like, no it was not gambling that nearly ruined you it was actually you that tried to ruin your life
This is what usually happens. It is always easier to blame others (find reasons and excuses for yourself) for mistakes than to realize and admit personal mistakes.
and that's because you refused to gamble responsibly and discipline yourself by not been capable of differentiating money meant for gambling from money meant for other projects in your life.
If a gambler finds himself penniless due to gambling, then of course this gambler has problems with money management. You can't bet money that is necessary for other areas of life, such as housing, food, training and other necessary expenses.
If you can't manage (distribute) money wisely, it is better not to gamble.
Why do people blame gamble for their own act of irresponsibility. No one is talking about their own part in their story of bad experience's with gambling, all we get to hear is gambling is bad and a useless activity. Why?
Well, first of all, the gambling industry is designed
to take money from players, so from a gambler's point of view, it is a really useless and bad activity because it makes the player poorer.
Secondly, people think positively and justify any of their actions, even irresponsible and unprofitable ones. Even if they turn out to be a complete loser, having lost all their money gambling and getting into huge debts, gamblers will blame casinos and gambling for all their troubles, and never themselves. Whereas, the source of their financial and life problems is undoubtedly only themselves. Nobody forced them to go to the casino by force, right.