Comment by olyjohn

2 days ago

Let's hear what you think about gambling addiction then. People have destroyed their lives and families due to it. No chemical dependency either.

I think it's possible to criticize things for what they are, without having to resort to conflating them with other things. Excessive gambling doesn't have to be equated to physical addiction in order to be regarded as a bad thing -- it can be a bad thing as a result of its own consequences without having to be compared to anything else.