• LemmysMum@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Consider a dictionary.

      I’ll repeat myself for your own benefit.

      Yes, action against compulsion is an active choice, but to not do so is not suddenly a lack of active choice, just a lack of ability to enforce it.

      Wilful ignorance devalues your position far more than an ad hominem ever will.

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        Mmk I’ll Google those for you

        Compulsion: an irresistible persistent impulse to perform an act

        Impulse: a sudden desire, whim, or inclination

        Inclination: a preference or tendency, or a feeling that makes a person want to do something

        Preference: the power or opportunity of choosing

        Addiction is the loss of power or opportunity to CHOOSE.

        You seem obsessed with the assumption that I think addicts are just weakly choosing the wrong thing, or something. That’s very much not my suggestion. Deep in the core of the brain, chemical dependence pathways influence decisionmaking in a way the victim is unable to override.