What do you think, taht drug addiction is a disease or chracter defect?
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Jump to PostI would say its both.
The chemical addiction caused in the body I would say is more like a disease.
But the lack of will power to pull the individual off the drug is more the character of the individual.
My view anyhow.
Jump to PostI would say neither.
The two words you've chosen are really bad to describe what addiction is (drug or otherwise). A disease usually implies either a virus or an infection, i.e., some kind of foreign organism (pathogene) spreading in your body. Addiction is nothing like that at all. And the …
Jump to PostThere are very few things in life that are a choice... We as humans are tempered by our desires.
I strongly disagree. People who say "I had no choice" when things go bad are really saying "I knew it was wrong and I did it anyway". If I …
Jump to PostJim, since you asked me to do my research
A false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, the either-or fallacy, etc.)
I will change the parenthetical 'stupid' and say that argument from moral idignation does not really have a place in an exchange of ideas for many reasons including …
Jump to PostI think both because when you start drugs its character defect
That kind of bottles down to why you started. did you start because "it'll look 'kewl', all the kids 'r doin' it" and "no way I'm going to get addicted", sure.. why not? that could be bit …
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