It's also important to note:
```[...] that other factors besides biological mechanisms, such as a person’s social environment, are also critical in a person’s risk for drug use. An alternative to the gateway-drug hypothesis is that people who are more vulnerable to drug-taking are simply more likely to start with readily available substances such as marijuana, tobacco, or alcohol, and their subsequent social interactions with others who use drugs increases their chances of trying other drugs.```

This is why HoI4 is best for society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qakyLhuGKc @RayzorJack

Thats mostly a cop out sentence

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I'm sure it is

Most studies don't don't like being definitive

https://www.phoenixhouse.org/faq/why-do-some-people-become-addicted-while-others-do-not/
```No single factor can predict whether or not a person will become addicted to drugs. Risk for addiction is influenced by a person’s biology, social environment, and age or stage of development.```

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```Scientists don’t yet understand why some people become addicted while others don’t. Addiction tends to run in families, and certain types of genes have been linked to different forms of addiction. But not all members of an affected family are necessarily prone to addiction. “As with heart disease or diabetes, there’s no one gene that makes you vulnerable,” Koob says.```
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2015/10/biology-addiction

shut the fuck up swede

Only attracted to women over 18 that my artistic preferences

There's also a slight correlation between certain genes and a propensity to be addicted to certain substances

Likewise, if you had relatives (IE. Parents) who were addicted to certain substances, you're also likely to be addicted (RE: Alcohol)

Of course. Its again a factor

Yes, I've stated as much

Joke's on you, I don't jack off to porn.

But things like paedophilia are not genetic

@leavethisbotnet Okay, Asexual

>people before porn was a thing were all asexual
ok

guys

stop talking about kiddy-fucking

Jokes on you I dont jack off. I slapp my dick on the table until it spits on the cereal

you goddamn weirdos

shhh, I wanna see where they go with this

Why can’t we just go back to finding a nice girl marrying and fucking her?

🍿

https://youtu.be/a94n3wD0Qqo

@grazzt
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393782/
```The etiology of pedophilia remains largely unknown, but the disorder is thought to be caused by an undetermined distribution of psychological, sociological, and biological factors```
Whilst pedophilia isn't inherently a genetic thing, I wouldn't be surprised if genetics plays a part in certain individuals being more likely to become pedophiles

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3119063/amp/Can-scientists-spot-pedophile-Study-claims-likely-physical-deformities-left-handed.html

Good thing I'm right-handed

I knew there was something wrong with left handed people

It’s usually caused from parents drinking alcohol or some other deformity

:dab: right handed ftw

now @livid_scrooge can't accuse me of being a ~~pedo~~ lolicon (though they're the same thing)

Though it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a gene for it, the biological argument for pedophilia is not genetic

Just something going wrong in the womb

@Snake yeah, the NCBI article I linked listed a study that seems to show that there's likely a familial connection for pedophilia

pedophilia is learned, just like homosexuality

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393782/