It's a bad means of reference for self evaluation using others addictive metrics to measure to ours, it can only give us an opportunity to self denial of how bad we have become with our addiction. In casino gambling and sports betting we ain't competing among ourselves and as such evaluating our level of self responsibility on how we gamble should be done mirroring ourself. If you say others are worse than you and should be a reason to feel comfortable with some irresponsible gambling habit you're exhibiting then you're deceiving yourself.