[ExI] state of conflict technology

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 1:59 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>> wanting to stop doing something but being unable to force yourself to do
>> so
>
>
> *> Now one problem I find with this definition is that people do seem to
> have conflicting desires. So, one can easily imagine a person wanting to
> get off X yet still wanting to be on X.*
>

Perhaps a better definition of addiction would be not wanting to stop but
wanting to want to stop.

And it's odd, politicians talk about the drug epidemic as if it's something
new but tobacco is very old and it kills far more people than every other
drug, legal and illegal, combined. And that remains true even if you
include the second most dangerous drug alcohol which for some strange
reason most parents don't even consider a drug.... "*thank goodness, little
Jimmy was't on drugs, he was just drunk*".


 John K Clark
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