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Usually it's defined in a self-normalizing way, though. Addiction is when the addict themselves believes that the behaviors are detrimental to their own life, b
by darawk 7y ago
Usually it's defined in a self-normalizing way, though. Addiction is when the addict themselves believes that the behaviors are detrimental to their own life, but cannot bring themselves to stop engaging in them.
- jhayward 7y agoI'm not questioning that the behavior happens, or that it is detrimental and the addict knows that to some extent. I'm objecting to using the word "choose", which has moralistic implications in addition to being of questionable utility in a functional sense of describing the behavior.
- darawk 7y agoI am an (inactive) addict and I don't find it to be moralistic or questionable in utility. It's the correct description.