Hello bitcointalk community.
I need your hints and thoughts on this because I honestly having a double feeling if what I gave out was the right advise to give or it's going to worsen matters more than it currently is.
it's actually about a neighbor whose younger sibling came visiting to spend two nights at his place, from what I was told by his elder bro who's financially well to do, his sibling specifically came over to request for financial support and before then he has been calling on phone to which he has been ditching the calls, he therefore had to come in person to visit, and has been all over him claiming he needs the money for some urgent business setup. According to him, he's avoiding his bro because most times he had supported him with money he has regularly squander it on gambling and as a result he has resolved on not giving him money again.
He couldn't hold the disturbance about how he feels according to him, so he had to share the entire story with me seeking for my advice because he doesn't know if his bro is genuine about his alleged business claims. I felt pity for him having a gambling addicted brother, so the advise I gave him was that he shouldn't give him a penny, if he really genuine about the business let him go sought himself out elsewhere and when he(my neighbor) later sees the business growing he can then support.
But, later in the day I started feeling bad for advising a brother not to help his own brother when he's in need of help he can give due to my sentiment against gambling addiction.
what do you guys think about this?
I planned on locking the thread after a few shared thoughts.
Maybe you gave this advice out of similar experience in your family? Because you sound like one, I had a brother who was also addicted to gambling, he can't even hold a business without the business folding up, friends and family have tried to set three businesses for him and he always failed, later on we all had to turn a blind eye.
One day he came back and started crying painfully, I've never seen him like that before, I completely believed that he has learned his lesson, and today he is not even close to gambling again, so my dear I think an addicted gambler who is destined to break those addiction chains will think twice after his loved ones turn their back on him.
All he have to do is have a change of heart and families will see through that he have changed for real, until then do not fuel the gambling addiction, he needs to take some steps himself.