[Kudos]

> it does not infringe on anyone else's God-given rights

Gamblers have lost their homes as a result of their addiction, I think that impact on their families counts for something.

[kriops]

It is your right as a human to waste your life away. It is also by definition immoral regardless of moral system (so long as 'waste your life away' is an accurate assessment within said moral system), but they are completely separate matters.

I.e., no. It counts for nothing.

[BeFlatXIII]

Did you miss the point about negative impact on others?

[lordnacho]

So if your degenerate father gambles away your college fund, that's your personal responsibility?

[rightbyte]

You can blame both the house and the gambler you know.

[nosianu]

Yes, they chose their genes and the structure of their brain after all, how irresponsible of them! /s

In general, something that happens at scale and consistently is not an individual problem.

You have whole armies of very well funded designers of things like processed food, or games, working to deliberate find the faults in human brains, and to make politicians make the laws that lets them do it legally, and you say it's the fault of the individual that falls for it?