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Do you believe it is not possible to alter the usage behavior of a person addicted to a substance with money? The cost might be unreasonably high to get them t
by izzydata 8y ago
Do you believe it is not possible to alter the usage behavior of a person addicted to a substance with money?
The cost might be unreasonably high to get them to stop, but it might be possible.
- hashkb 8y agoThat's irrelevant to this argument. The amount you have to pay an addict to stop using something does not give you the value of that thing. Gambling should be easy. Casino gambling has an obvious negative value to gamblers because most gamblers lose most of the time. If it costs me $X to pay a gambler to never enter the casino again... I don't see any connection between that cost and the "value of gambling in casinos".
- izzydata 8y agoThat's fair. I also wouldn't consider it the value of that thing.
- carapace 8y agoThat's beside the point: You cannot conclude that cigarettes are beneficial by this method. Right in the abstract they say: > ... our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large. ...which is absurd.
- rdiddly 8y agoI would, at the very least, say "perceived benefit."
- quadrangle 8y agoeven that is not fair, given the tobacco metaphor