• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    7 months ago

    I’m saying that the person in the green text is judging people for going through something they have literally no experience with.

    Obviously addiction is bad, but that doesn’t mean the people who become addicted are stupid or make bad decisions. The way addiction works means there is no choice. If it was as simple as making a choice addiction wouldn’t exists.

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      7 months ago

      I think the issue they’re having is why are there still young people that smoke, regardless of income, demographic, race, area, every category has some amount of young people smoking. You can’t explain them ALL away by lack of education, unideal upbringing, etc etc.

      My mum always said when I was growing up she believes no one will smoke soon since we have so much education on it in school. Yet I’m 37 and teens are still starting smoking. I live in what is considered a fairly rich and well educated area. They’re not addicted before they start. They do have a choice. It is as simple as making the choice not to start. They’re not in a situation that they don’t know better.

      We shouldn’t have as many people under 40, under 30, under 20 smoking as we do.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Actually, addicts chose to be addicted when they chose to ingest addictive drugs before they were addicted. Hope this helps ♥

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        7 months ago

        Wow, the world is so black and white! No nuance or context at all, you can just call everything like you see it. You’re so smart for being able to see the world one dimensionally. Thanks for the help 🙏

        You must be a trump voter.

      • Machinist@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Absolute statement like that coming from an obvious place of smug ignorance is always entertaining.

        I look forward to your debate with others in this thread.