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You just used addicted and choose it in the same sentence.
I don't think those are mutually exclusive. However, it takes energy and willpower to make a choice that goes against the nature of the addiction.
Addiction means you have a strong impulse for it, but at the end of the day you're still choosing.
That is not, at all, the meeting of addicted.
Addiction is the inability to stop doing something.
With the acknowledgement that addiction is a disease, what's happening is a part of the brain cannot stop choosing to do something, for a variety of legitimate chemical and habitual reasons
"Cannot stop choosing"
Come on.
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 "
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.
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.
Choice is, by definition, not subject to compulsion, and if it is subject to compulsion is not a willing choice, it is forced and influenced. If you want to be a pedantic asshole at least have the intellectual integrity to be right first.
Compulsion is overridden choice!
I'm not suggesting addiction is done flippant thing, it's a serious disease.
Quit throwing around insults then claiming I'm the one lacking integrity.
And not a choice.
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.
If you're concerned with what you are, be different.
I'm certainly not concerned, just making clear your ad hominem devalues your position.
Consider this paper regarding the very overlapping and complicated relationship between addiction, choice, and compulsion.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736117/
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.
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.
Now Google choice.
As someone who has had physical and psychological dependency on substances I guess I've never been addicted
Psychological dependency is described in my comment via chemical and habitual