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shnangyboos posted...

You don't just start out addicted to shit. It's a series of choices. Empathy is great and all, but I don't think we need to pretend all addicts are deserving of sympathy simply by virtue of being an addict.

choices, perhaps, but it's also often a whole lot of circumstance, and especially when addiction starts young or under dangerous circumstances (as it most often does), it can hardly be called a choice.

beyond that, there is a lot of information being learned in epigenetic research that suggests that we may not have as much agency as we think, although i'm not going to spend time trying to convince you of that.

any time someone is sick, it's natural and even admirable to feel empathy and pity for them, regardless of if their illness was caused by their choices or not. it's really not very difficult to, in fact.
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