Sounds like you ascribe to the moral... "Haven't read Bennett's book, tear him apart." He never Christened himself as the Virtue guru, the press did.
Many people on this thread, perhaps you are one, have no idea what high rolling feels like. Some have tasted the power and rejected it. Some libertarians think there is nothing wrong with it. Most are just trying to explain it away as gambling as if he was some anonymous old lady taking the bus to Atlantic City.
Gambling is only part of high rolling. The rest, the extreme excess, is what feeds Vanity. And Vanity is the most deadly sin.