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For me gambling does not increase crime but rather increase addiction to some people who does not know how to handle it properly. When it comes to crime, for me the number 1 aspect is drugs next is poverty. I don't consider gambling unless it was also associated with drugs.

So do you agree that it increases or not? Because on one side you say it doesn't then you say it does Huh

He said the crime rates were increase because of drugs and Poverty then it may fall under gambling too but literally less when compared to the above two.But as he said the poverty causing the people to do anything to make money that is why they become criminals in the eyes of governments but some of them maybe considered as criminals too when they are doing much right things.

No you are wrong. In my opinion gambling is the mother of all crimes. When a gambler loses money in gambling, definitely he will become angry and will anger to get back his money and when he has no more money he will do illegal activities to get some money for gambling. This is a fact and I have seen many people doing this. Gradually they become professional criminals.

Mother of all crimes? Then how would you explain the other crimes that were done by non-gamblers? I think you're exaggerating things. You can be a non-gambler but still have dark thoughts and commit crime ultimately. And you can be a gambler but still be a good person. Gambling has nothing to do with crime. It's the addiction that makes you act up. You're too addicted to gambling that you start committing crime just to feed your addiction.

I think it's only in extreme cases that this actually happens. There's still parts of a gambler that's remained sane and so he'll be able to save himself from bankruptcy. It's only in extreme cases when a gambler has to do illegal things. For the professional criminal, idk if such a thing exists (gambler turned professional criminal). Because professional criminal would mean something like a hit man that gets paid to do a crime. That's quite intense and would require knowledge on how to kill a man without getting caught. I don't think something like that can be learned in gambling.

Yes, there are only few people who does crime to gamble. Seems like his statement is pure exaggeration. But, there are many illegal activities which are often connected to gambling. For instance, drugs, prostitution, illegal money lending and laundering, blackmail and threatening and many more.