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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Inherited gambling
by
hahay
on 09/07/2022, 10:52:41 UTC

This is a good comparison, we should understand that it is our choice to get addict into something and most of the time if the Children sees the addiction of their parents, they started to hate it. In the situation of my friend, his parents is a liquor addict and when his parent get drunk, they became insane and starts to hurt his siblings so this kind of trauma makes them hate beer, and that is also a proof that addiction can’t be inherit. We all have our own choices here especially if you are already on a legal age, always choose what’s best for you.
That is correct personal choice is a different thing and addiction is an other. But we can not say it at all that just because our parents were smokers - kids are smoking. My father was a chain smoker. But none of my sibling likes smoking at all. Why it has not been transferred through genes? because it is not in DNA

Very well said, but gambling and smoking are entirely different, there's no thrill in smoking while there's a huge thrill in gambling because you have a chance to win big money if you will try to risk money. Sometimes we are influenced if we see people inside the family that are winning in gambling, which will result in curiosity and we will also try to experiment on our own.
Each addiction has its own sensation and we cannot equate addiction to alcohol, cigarettes and gambling because they are something or a different kind and have their own sensations. Also, every child can always choose whether they should become addicts too or not because over time there will be changes to their choices. For example I have a friend whose parents were drunkards and my friend as a teenager chose the same way as a drunkard, but over time after he had his own family the drunken habit had disappeared from him. Well, basically every addiction will be eliminated over time with awareness from themselves, about inheritance it is not something that can be associated with addiction because inheritance is something that has a price and value.