>>771523
Losing awareness of wrongdoing is virtually the definition of degeneration, of course you wouldn't see the moral issue, you see only the material gain/loss because you are degenerating towards the material.

"Getting" is not a virtue, it's not the same as earning. Gamblers dissociate and believe that they've actually earned their winnings somehow. Every gambler I've ever known thought they had a special system or understanding, straight up narcissism and that's what the gambling was really fueling. They didn't care how much they won or lost it was just a degenerate self esteem exercise. Hence my comment. Doesn't matter if you lose or gain materially, how rich or poor you were to begin with, or how much you enjoy it. Go on, tell me how it's valid as a activity and compare it to other hobbies, you gamblers are all cut from the same block.

What you're losing is personal accountability, you're divesting from reality into a world where gambling makes you better and abstaining makes you worse. You lose sight of why what you're doing is wrong and become addicted in just the same way a heroin addict becomes addicted to the phisical gratification.