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sandworm101 • yesterday at 5:08 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

No. They are called "vices" because you get stuck in them. Ten thousand studies on mice tell us that addiction isn't learned morality but innate biology.

We also pass laws regulating murder/arson/theft even though those too can be avoided through self control.


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worik • yesterday at 7:19 PM

The studies that showed rats would suck on a morphine feed until they got very sick had a floor which was demonstrated in the 1970s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

throwaway_95283 • yesterday at 5:48 PM

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