Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the hook isn’t it. They’ve been doing it for years, no harm done.

  That’s how most addictions seem to start anyway.

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plenty of people have the same exposure and are not hooked by it. That's my point. I'm happy to be rid of the exposure, I'm not defending it, but it doesn't address what makes a subset of people susceptible to it.

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    • unknown@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but actually addressing the route cause of addiction would require isolating the genes responsible and removing them, which is basically eugenics, no?

      The other way of combating this would be for quality of life to increase dramatically across the board for everyone, as debilitating addiction is a trauma/stress response. But no government is going to do this, so it's probably going to be eugenics if it is attempted.

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      • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do we have the data backing up that it's genetic?

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