> Yes. Coke, McDonalds, The Gap and every other consumer company try like hell to create involuntary behaviors in people all the time. The appeal to authority

> Yes. Coke, McDonalds, The Gap and every other consumer company try like hell to create involuntary behaviors in people all the time. The appeal to authority that you have connected to the actions of corporations in regard to ethics does not answer the question I posed. If you want to discuss these companies in particular, I would say that they have all violated what are considered good ethics many times. Is their creation of involuntary habits ethical? > No, at least not for adults of sound mind. What about children and teenagers then? We ban them from cigarettes and gambling. How about apps that are designed like a VLT? > Farmville Wasn't Farmville found to be targeting lonely retirees of questionably sound mind? > Yes. Or at least, you and anyone else who wants to can. But making products that people use frequently is a common definition of success. Most comapnies aren't going to pass that up because some people have addictive personalities. The destination of my question was regulation surrounding technology and addictive software. I am not an American, so this notion is not anathema to me. :) > Good luck with that. Education vs the Forces of Capitalism. Winner: Capitalism. This is just so cynical it hurts me.