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So angry with society glamorizing risk behavior! (vent)
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 557674" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>We in fact had something like that some time ago. Local brewery industry had a campaign to promote responsible drinking. they had ads that started like your normal alcohol commercials, beautiful people having good time. Then there was this one person, who had drank too much. A boy making himself an idiot and in the end peeing his pants and others watching in disgust. A girl with her make up gone bad puking in the toilet etc. Okay, it was breweries attempt to appear more responsible and do goodwill, but still I liked the campaign a lot. I think almost every kid has a relative, family friend or someone else they know who is an alcoholic. Kids do know what alcoholism does to the person. They are just unable to understand that it could happen to them. It usually takes time for alcoholism to really make havoc in person's life and even if the kids know someone younger who has serious problems because of alcohol, they just think it would not happen to them, because they are just having fun and doing like everyone else. Kids just can't imagine they would ever end up alcoholics. But kids often can imagine, that they would drink too much in one time and make a fool out of themselves. It's same with tobacco. Lung cancer is too far away from kids' world, but smelling bad and that nice girl/boy not wanting to kiss you is much more realistic and imaginable threat to them.</p><p></p><p>With gambling, while of course age-old problem, the current trendiness is something so new, that you don't see the warning examples yet. And of course gamblers are not passing out on the streets or behaving in unpredictable way in subway, so it is much more of the hidden problem. There are signs though. News about young people being heavily over debt. News stories about normal, previously non-criminal and trusted people scamming and embezzling money in the most despicable ways (teachers scamming school trip money of her class, director of highly thought and well known charity embezzling the donation money, accountant embezzling from international corporation (well knowing he would get caught in the next audit etc.)), suicides and murder-suicides in families there everything 'was fine' and later gambling debts are told to be one of the reasons. But of course kids who want to be professional poker players or sport betters don't notice those news. Or at least that would never happen to them...</p><p></p><p>Because my son's issues are well known and thoroughly gossiped in our small community and in the sport community, I'm nowadays quite often approached by other mothers, who worry about their kids (usually sons) gambling. And while so very well hidden in these middle class families, I'm starting to understand that in my community this is a huge issue. And no one seems to care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 557674, member: 14557"] We in fact had something like that some time ago. Local brewery industry had a campaign to promote responsible drinking. they had ads that started like your normal alcohol commercials, beautiful people having good time. Then there was this one person, who had drank too much. A boy making himself an idiot and in the end peeing his pants and others watching in disgust. A girl with her make up gone bad puking in the toilet etc. Okay, it was breweries attempt to appear more responsible and do goodwill, but still I liked the campaign a lot. I think almost every kid has a relative, family friend or someone else they know who is an alcoholic. Kids do know what alcoholism does to the person. They are just unable to understand that it could happen to them. It usually takes time for alcoholism to really make havoc in person's life and even if the kids know someone younger who has serious problems because of alcohol, they just think it would not happen to them, because they are just having fun and doing like everyone else. Kids just can't imagine they would ever end up alcoholics. But kids often can imagine, that they would drink too much in one time and make a fool out of themselves. It's same with tobacco. Lung cancer is too far away from kids' world, but smelling bad and that nice girl/boy not wanting to kiss you is much more realistic and imaginable threat to them. With gambling, while of course age-old problem, the current trendiness is something so new, that you don't see the warning examples yet. And of course gamblers are not passing out on the streets or behaving in unpredictable way in subway, so it is much more of the hidden problem. There are signs though. News about young people being heavily over debt. News stories about normal, previously non-criminal and trusted people scamming and embezzling money in the most despicable ways (teachers scamming school trip money of her class, director of highly thought and well known charity embezzling the donation money, accountant embezzling from international corporation (well knowing he would get caught in the next audit etc.)), suicides and murder-suicides in families there everything 'was fine' and later gambling debts are told to be one of the reasons. But of course kids who want to be professional poker players or sport betters don't notice those news. Or at least that would never happen to them... Because my son's issues are well known and thoroughly gossiped in our small community and in the sport community, I'm nowadays quite often approached by other mothers, who worry about their kids (usually sons) gambling. And while so very well hidden in these middle class families, I'm starting to understand that in my community this is a huge issue. And no one seems to care. [/QUOTE]
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