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There is nothing stopping anyone from quit gambling or smoking or drinking and yet there are enormous number of people struggling with it.
by mrtksn 3y ago
There is nothing stopping anyone from quit gambling or smoking or drinking and yet there are enormous number of people struggling with it.
- lxgr 3y agoArguably a better comparison would be food: Many people struggle with obesity, but limiting access to food is not really the way to help with that.
- mrtksn 3y agoGood analogy.
- sneak 3y agoThere is abundant food in places without obesity epidemics. The problem is food policy in the US, not abundance.
- lxgr 3y agoExactly, and likely the availability/affordability of nutritious food as well. And to loop the analogy back – I don't think ubiquitous network reachability is ultimately a big problem; it's what we do with it: Social expectations around constant availability to respond, addictive/heavily gamified applications, etc.
- Aerbil313 3y agoA counter example is alcohol prohibition in Islam: It worked and to this day to to a great extent still works, unlike failed American Prohibition.