> The problem with addicts is that they are born addicts. That is to say that addiction ... is something some people are born with and some people are not You

> The problem with addicts is that they are born addicts. That is to say that addiction ... is something some people are born with and some people are not You seem to be counting as "addicts" some people who have never experienced the thing they are supposedly addicted to. There might be a meaningful classification here. But if so, the word "addict" doesn't point at it.