How far do people go to feed a gambling addiction?
In this story we have a young bank teller, 28 years old lady, who stole 28,000$ from four different elders who were suffering from health and cognitive problems. Her goal was to fuel a gambling addiction, as presented by the defense at the court.
That’s surprising. I don’t know why people just have to do crazy things just because they want to gamble. Why do you have to steal from elderly people who are having health challenges just because you want to satisfy yourself? People like this are the ones that make most people think gambling is a bad activity, but they won’t know it’s just some people's stupidity. Gambling is supposed to be fun, and we shouldn’t do things that will hurt ourselves or other people. Seriously, the person should be properly punished so that next time things like that won’t repeat themselves and it’s going serve as warning to others.
I think there is no doubt that the action was taken because someone had entered the addiction phase, and I also think there have been quite a lot of terrible cases that we have heard about the recklessness of a gambler in making decisions or taking action when they have entered the addiction phase, such as committing crimes or other crazy things like suicide.
It was all done because they were too obsessed with winning, or because they were already trapped in the goal of gambling to reach the recovery phase related to the amount of money that was previously lost due to defeat.
And yes, it is true as you said that people like this are the ones who make gambling have a very bad stigma in the eyes of most people, even though it is clear that if we know the case, gambling is not bad, but gamblers like that have a bad way of treating their gambling activities so that it causes various significant problems for themselves and others, there is no pleasure whatsoever when a gambler is in that situation, and this is why addiction is a cycle that we must always avoid.