Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement
unknown@piefed.social 2 days agoYeah 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.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
Do we have the data backing up that it's genetic?
unknown@piefed.social 2 days ago
I don't know, honestly I was just guessing it was linked to various gene expressions. Many folk with adhd are very susceptible addictions, so I was kinda assuming if there was a gambling gene so to speak, it would be linked to that.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
I could absolutely see it having a genetic component, but without data to support it I'm not going to start suggesting policy (even if policy was my area!). If we could prove it was genetic then we could start putting policies in place that treat gambling as what it is, predatory, and have an unassailable reason to not tolerate its current place in our society.
I have nothing moral against gambling in and of itself but I do have something against preying on our people.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
We shouldn’t refuse to take action just because we don’t have a perfect understanding of the problem.