• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    You choose to walk a direction, you choose to look out a window. Choice is a critical component of being human.

    Addiction is the chemical overriding of the prioritization of choice.

    "compulsively committed or helplessly drawn to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming "

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      7 months ago

      Again: “compulsively” “helplessly”.

      Look, if you’re not interested in admitting that words have meaning, you’re not arguing in good faith and I’m done with you. Have a good one.

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        7 months ago

        Lol yes. Choice has meaning. Choice here being dictated by compulsive behavior, or dominant chemical signaling is still choice. Like, your brain is doing it. Choice is not just “what color shirt will I wear today”, it is far deeper.

        I’m not victim blaming or trying to fuck with you, I am focusing on the fact that words have meaning, and choice isn’t just a surface level, front brain thing. Choice is integral to the human condition, and choice and addiction are bedfellows. The latter dominating the former.