[ExI] Question from a neophyte

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

Addiction? You mean behavior outside the -current cultural norm- don't you? If you look at the range of human activities across culture you realize that such discussions and distinctions are really expressions of the current cultural models, whether one realizes it or not.

Aztec kings used to regularly push obsidian knives through their penises to collect blood to burn, now that's a surgical addiction.

---- Jeff Davis <heavensblade23 at gmail.com> wrote: 

> How does the concept of morphological freedom deal with issues like surgical
> addiction?
> 
> I ran into a surgical addict on a message board years ago and the pictures
> he posted of himself are not among my fondest memories.
> 
> Whether there's a distinction between implanting magnets under your
> fingertips and cutting chunks out of yourself because of mental
> illness depends on who you're talking to.

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