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does it take away all the things you need to enjoy life ? 1. food 2. alcohol 3. gambling 4. smoking last three are extreme cases but general principle shou

• aziaziazi 1y ago
  Assuming good faith of your question: Your body has other mechanisms to make you remember you need 1, like for water intake or breathing. Those mechanisms starts as soon as anyone birth and doesn’t need your intervention to become a need. 2, 3 and 4 however become needs as you decide (consciously or not) it is. Same with heroin, social media or basically any other think we call "addiction". Food obviously is a bit confusing as our omnivorous and resilient condition let us satisfy it in many ways : you don’t really need green vegetables, meat, sugar, beans, fish, nuts, muschroom, roots etc… to survive but stopping them all together will kill you. Some subset (of quality/quantity) keeps you in a better condition than others. Appart that condition effects, the way you that specific subset as a need has more to do with habits.
• ndriscoll 1y ago
  If the general principle were "things to enjoy life", you'd probably want to look at examples like 1. Finding love 2. Raising children 3. Helping others 4. Strengthening your body 5. Learning about the world 6. Participating in sports 7. Music (playing and listening) 8. Art (creating and appreciating) Does it make people less inclined to seek those things or mute their enjoyment? Things like recreational drugs (alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco included), gambling, and (excess or poor) food sound to me like "self-destructive behaviors" for many people, which generally are things that make life less enjoyable, and the people participating in them know that (but nonetheless struggle to stop).