Yes, a lot of people lose money gambling. Many consider it the same as spending money for entrtainment. They also pay for shows, meals, hotels, drinks, etc. This does not make them “losers.”
This may give you a feeling about how I feel in that I am in agreement with driftdiver.
I think gambling should be legal. I think prostitution should be legal. But I also agree with G. K. Chesterton:
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”
You can defend casino gambling all you want. It is not a virtue in any way, shape or form.
Back in old Jericho, they thought that prostitution should be legal also. But then Joshua showed up . . .
I was not defending gambling at all. In fact, I hate having to stand in line at a convenience store while folks buy lottery tickets and so on.
This article is not about that. How the FK do you know the people in Vegas were gambling? Gambling is not even the biggest attraction to Vegas now. You totally lost track of the subject at hand.
And you have zero reading comprehension of either the intent of the orginial article nor my posts.