to casino house owners. Besides crime, gambling diminishes person’s moral values, distracts people from family life and puts some of them in to deep financial problems. If a person gets high revenue from gambling, which occurs extremely rare, he or she has a larger claim for welfare as well as shaping wrong attitudes toward work. Consequently, when a person wins and spends big amount of money, he/she will attempt to repeat the luck. It, in most of the cases, ends with big debts that lead to crisis in family, commitment of crimes and even suicide.Furthermore, all those problems may appear unnoticeably, because gambling hooks its victims just like drugs. It exploits the weaknesses of personality. Once a person felt the pleasure of receiving easy money he/she simply cannot stop to continue the habit. Compulsive gamblers lose friends and relatives because they betray them only for the sake of winning some money. As long as they start to face legal and financial problems, regressed physical and mental state, complicated communication in their families and society, gambling can be defined as a dangerous illness. It is probably a bigger problem than alcoholism or drug abuse. In other words, gamblers are addicted to the destructive habit. How can humanity tolerate such a disaster? Opposition might say that there would be more underground casino houses if the legal ones suddenly become forbidden. That would definitely be a reasonably true statement, but not a moral solution. If government approves gambling, then why not legalize destructive drugs, prostitution and robbery. All of those can be found in the underground, but none of them fit our society’s moral standards.Another possible argument for legal gambling would state the shady fact that government collects high taxes from casinos. It is true; however, gambling contributes to corruption in government and courts. Gamblers do not feel any moral obstacles in attempt to corrupt po...
