this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
509 points (98.5% liked)

World News

38276 readers
2106 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm saying that it's not that simple to just forgo something addictive.

I'm an ex smoker (and ex drinker) myself, so while I would never recommend smoking (or drinking to excess), I have very little patience for people assuming or implying that addictions are easily kicked.

That shit can control significant parts of your whole life, sometimes in subtle ways you weren't even aware of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So, you agree people should not start drinking Coca Cola, and for their own health and finances they should make every effort to stop drinking Coca Cola.

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, but it isn't that simple, is what I'm saying.

You're pretending that it's a completely unencumbered choice. That there's no social and societal pressures making lifelong coca cola abstinence viewed as evidence of being in a cult or mentally unwell.

Likewise, addictions fight you hard when you try to get rid of them, much harder than anyone who's never been addicted can even imagine.

Fact is that it's NOT an unencumbered choice at all, and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone.