• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    9 hours ago

    berdly-actually “Addiction is a specific thing that requires biological dependency therefore you said the wrong word and everything you said is invalid!” berdly-smug

    I posted that there so pedants don’t have to.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 hours ago

      I absolutely hate that argument, it would mean gambling addiction is not real. In other words: one of the most harmful addictions to public health is not an addiction by that definition, because there’s no “biological dependency”.

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            27 minutes ago

            Because some fairweather leftists are so preoccupied with “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” that even talking about the problem got them very defensive, up to and including “people that get pulled into gambling and ruin their own lives and the lives of their families had it coming” very-leftist takes.