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Originally posted by MrFenty
People don't binge drink and do drugs because celebrities do it. They do it because their parents have neglected or abandoned them leaving emotional vacuums that people (even rihanna herself) try to fill through alc/drugs.
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That's a huge (and false) generalisation. Addiction and drug/alcohol abuse are caused by so many different things. Do you know how many addicts come from loving homes with supportive parents? It can be for a million different reasons. It's not just from parental neglect/abandonment. You just fabricated that argument out of thin air? And yeah, people don't binge drink or do drugs because celebrities do it, but seeing celebrities do it leads to curiosity and thinking it's ok/fun/cool, which can lead to experimentation, which can lead to addiction/abuse/binging.
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Originally posted by MrFenty
People who have an emotionally intelligent support group, don't see a video like this and decide to do drugs. And Rihanna should not have to censure her art to cater to people who do happen to be more susceptible to manipulative/glamorizing behavior.
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Emotional intelligence is strongly related to emotional development though, which is why I keep bringing up teenagers and their impressionability. A lot of teens like to think that they don't have role models - that they make their own decisions independently of what anyone else is doing/thinking, but that's not true. Exposure to content like this, films like 'Project X', TV shows like 'Skins' etc. can spark a flame of curiosity - "I wonder what smoking weed feels like" - "I wonder what MDMA feels like" - "I wonder what cocaine feels like." Yes, emotionally intelligent people (and more importantly, emotionally developed people, i.e. adults) can watch content like this and not be tempted, or curious, but not all people are emotionally developed. The younger you are when you first start experimenting, the more susceptible you are to problems with drugs and alcohol later on in life.
Not to go all Demi on everyone, but one of the first questions they ask you in rehab and drug/alcohol counselling is "how old were you the first time you got drunk?"
