[ SECRET POST #2821 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2821 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Twin Peaks]


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03.
[Star Trek]


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04.
[Fall Out Boy]


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05.
[Monster]


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06.
[Left 4 Dead 2/Grand Theft Auto 5]


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07.
[Cabin Pressure]


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08.
[Quantum Leap]


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09.
[Amy Winehouse]

















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm with you on this. People act like drug addiction is some kind of "moral event horizon" that only truly odious people get into but people make mistakes. People do things they shouldn't. People depend on emotional crutches when things get difficult. Addicts just choose a dangerous crutch to lean on.

[quirkytizzy]

Very much this. Addiction is not a choosey bitch, she'll take anyone who has the brain chemistry and the bad luck to get hooked. There's no denying that there is a complex and VERY poorly thought out decision process when it comes to doing things that will get you addicted. The addict will eventually need to come to terms with that.

But it's not a moral failing. People don't get addicted because they are bad people. They get addicted through bad luck, poor decisions, and screwy brain chemistry.

[(Anonymous)]

Poor decisions ARE a moral failing. That's kind of the point.

[(Anonymous)]

The decisions they make are not, in themselves, morally faulty. They are poor in the sense of imprudent, but not poor in the sense of immoral. Those decisions lead to alcoholism, but only in part and as a result of a confluence of other factors and events; they're not choosing to be addicted.

The idea that addiction is a moral failing absolutely does not stand up to any rigorous thought.

[(Anonymous)]

That kind of reasoning is a variant of Just World fallacy. You've decided that certain decisions (and it really is only certain decisions; you'll allow for mistakes, I'm sure, as long as those mistakes meet some arbitrary criteria that makes you feel okay about yourself and the people close to you) result from poor morality so that you can comfort yourself with the belief that bad things only happen to bad people.

But it's bullshit. And it's especially bullshit when it comes to drug addiction, because there's usually a lot more behind someone trying a drug than just making poor decisions (for example, heroin addiction often starts as an addiction to an opioid that the user was legitimately prescribed by her or his doctor for a legitimate medical reason).