everything in life is a gamble of sorts.
cross the street, there is a 1 in a million chance you get hit by a car.
have a simple surgery like a gall bladder removed there is a 1 in 250,000 something goes wrong, and you die
buy stock in your 401k, there is a gamble it goes down in value.
get married..................well, piss we all know the gamble there.
There will always be gambling.
I have never understood my people view betting on sports something that is wrong or shouldn't be done, when so much of what we do in life is a "gamble" with much larger stakes, in many cases.