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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.

  • null@slrpnk.net
    81·
    1 year ago

    My down votes are indicative of the denial that too many drug users exhibit.

    The irony is that you’re in denial that you simply made a bad take.

    • Welt@lazysoci.al
      33·
      1 year ago

      We should have learnt this by now - that chastising people with a bad take, even by something seemingly as innocuous as mass downvoting, actually tends to cause people to hang on to their beliefs harder because they’re being attacked for those very beliefs. It causes them to harden and somehow paradoxically confirms they were right all along. Our brains do unintuitive things quite often!