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Heroin isn't addictive because other addicts are convincing you to take it. We are a social animal in the sense that it's part of normal healthy functioning, a
by lr4444lr 3y ago
Heroin isn't addictive because other addicts are convincing you to take it.
We are a social animal in the sense that it's part of normal healthy functioning, and that isolation is considered a mode of torture. Social media is a means to connect people that is perfectly manageable if you're an intact person in the same sense that the telephone is a convenient eay to stay in touch. There is no safe dose of heroin to avoid addiction in a healthy person.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoThis thread is really not about heroin, though. Take food as an example. A person can be addicted to food (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_addiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_addiction) but eating isn't otherwise necessarily unhealthy. A person may be "compelled" to take a certain action for many reasons; I fail to see how the use of that word in this title is wrong.
- lr4444lr 3y agoThe sine qua non of addiction is withdrawal symptoms, not compulsion. Social media isn't necessary if you have a productive social life replacement. There is no analog substitute for heroin.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago> The sine qua non of addiction is withdrawal symptoms, not compulsion. This statement refutes the idea that social media or food can possibly be addictive, yet there's this body of research for both which asserts they can be. At best, this is splitting hairs over the definition of addiction. Assuming that Something can be addictive, a person might be "compelled" to act by their addiction to Something.