What causes degenerates to their destructive paths???

[greyhound stone]

 

[hannah54321]

FAMILY
BAD INFLUENCE EG FRIENDS

 

[Netflix]

Oh boy I’m gonna hear a lot of schizo stories.

 

[Shimbiris]

Addiction is at it's core someone trying to self-medicate in some way whether it's a physical problem or an emotional problem. You can blame anything from not enough love and attention and security growing up to a poor modern diet and something like a c-section birth setting them up for ailments later in life which they will in turn try to self-medicate. The hardcore stuff like heroin will likely get most people, even well to do people but even then if you listen to addicts they'll say the saddest of things like how the high feels like a "warm hug" they no doubt got very little of growing up.

 

[Material]

Personal choice. No one chooses to be in a gang or be a criminal they choose it for themselves

 

[Hassan2000]

gaalnimo basically

 

[Sophisticate]

There are multiple overlaying factors but the most striking seems to be a propensity for risk taking behaviour/high sensation seeking which is associated with engaging in substance use.

 

[Sol]

The company you keep and the exposure to certain internet echo chambers is the biggest reason imo

 

[exposedmeat]

Seeking validation from other people

 

[Shimbiris]

Rats aren't humans but there was an experiment ages ago where some guy showed that rats would basically keep taking cocaine or some drug like that until it killed them. Governments like the US gov back during the start of the war on drugs ran with this and really blew it up for propaganda.

But then another scientist who'd worked with rats before found this odd as it didn't seem like how rats would behave so he looked into the experiments and realized that the rats were being kept in very depressing, unnatural environments. Fluorescent lights, I think poor food, not many rats around to socialize with despite them being social animals... So he redid the experiment but this time with more natural lighting and a proper night and day cycle and put in plenty of rats of all ages and different sexes so that there could be plenty of social interaction and fed them well and guess what? The rats would try the cocaine or whatever just once and lose interest.

This experiment was in turn repeated all over the world and vindicated. Basically, animals, most likely us included, don't seek out such self destructive behavior unless something is fundamentally wrong with them and their environment. Mind you, this doesn't mean that fixing your physical health and environment will immediately cure you of an addiction. You'll likely naturally want it less but there are sadly neural links you'll have formed around the addiction that can make it too routine and hard to kick even after going through withdrawal.

 

[Nak-Muay-Kru]

The company you keep and the exposure to certain internet echo chambers is the biggest reason imo

100%, I can attribute must of the heinous degenerate shit I've done to the company I kept.

 

[Netflix]

Rats aren't humans but there was an experiment ages ago where some guy showed that rats would basically keep taking cocaine or some drug like that until it killed them. Governments like the US gov back during the start of the war on drugs ran with this and really blew it up for propaganda.

But then another scientist who'd worked with rats before found this odd as it didn't seem like how rats would behave so he looked into the experiments and realized that the rats were being kept in very depressing, unnatural environments. Fluorescent lights, I think poor food, not many rats around to socialize with despite them being social animals... So he redid the experiment but this time with more natural lighting and a proper night and day cycle and put in plenty of rats of all ages and different sexes so that there could be plenty of social interaction and fed them well and guess what? The rats would try the cocaine or whatever just once and lose interest.

This experiment was in turn repeated all over the world and vindicated. Basically, animals, most likely us included, don't seek out such self destructive behavior unless something is fundamentally wrong with them and their environment. Mind you, this doesn't mean that fixing your physical health and environment will immediately cure you of an addiction. You'll likely naturally want it less but there are sadly neural links you'll have formed around the addiction that can make it too routine and hard to kick even after going through withdrawal.

So you’re arguing for bad influence option.

 

[Nak-Muay-Kru]

Rats aren't humans but there was an experiment ages ago where some guy showed that rats would basically keep taking cocaine or some drug like that until it killed them. Governments like the US gov back during the start of the war on drugs ran with this and really blew it up for propaganda.

But then another scientist who'd worked with rats before found this odd as it didn't seem like how rats would behave so he looked into the experiments and realized that the rats were being kept in very depressing, unnatural environments. Fluorescent lights, I think poor food, not many rats around to socialize with despite them being social animals... So he redid the experiment but this time with more natural lighting and a proper night and day cycle and put in plenty of rats of all ages and different sexes so that there could be plenty of social interaction and fed them well and guess what? The rats would try the cocaine or whatever just once and lose interest.

This experiment was in turn repeated all over the world and vindicated. Basically, animals, most likely us included, don't seek out such self destructive behavior unless something is fundamentally wrong with them and their environment. Mind you, this doesn't mean that fixing your physical health and environment will immediately cure you of an addiction. You'll likely naturally want it less but there are sadly neural links you'll have formed around the addiction that can make it too routine and hard to kick even after going through withdrawal.

That reminds me of something I read about Vietnam vets taking a shit-ton of heroin whilst they were deployed. But apparently most of the them kicked the habit soon as they returned home.