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I'm saying that there are desirable limits on how much a free society constrains voluntary behavior. Cigarettes are physiologically addictive on a separate lev
by mapt 11y ago
I'm saying that there are desirable limits on how much a free society constrains voluntary behavior. Cigarettes are physiologically addictive on a separate level from psychologically addictive gambling, or psychologically addictive pornography, or psychologically addictive exercise, or psychologically addictive knitting, or psychologically addictive excessive work ethic. You can find people obsessed with any activity on Earth. It's a very rough ride trying to define a pathological level of each of those activities, and then intervene when that level is reached, with the full power of the state, against participants with no desire for an intervention.
- wpietri 11y agoI don't disagree that there are desirable limits. I disagree that physiological addiction to nicotine is societally more harmful than gambling addiction. I also think there are things to do other than "intervene [...] against participants with no desire for an intervention", so I think that's a bit of a red herring.