My point (which spurred all this) is that some people are born with alcoholic genes "turned on" by ancestors. They are in essence making chemicals that make them want alcohol more than the average person. What Dutch "weak mind" Jazzer fails to realize is that someone with this bigger nagging force may be much stronger willed than someone who is free of the affliction, but may still succumb/relapse. Who is someone without the chemical issues to judge the frailty of another who does? Please give me the blueprints to your mind-strength meter if you can do it.
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My point (which spurred all this) is that some people are born with alcoholic genes "turned on" by ancestors. They are in essence making chemicals that make them want alcohol more than the average person. What Dutch "weak mind" Jazzer fails to realize is that someone with this bigger nagging force may be much stronger willed than someone who is free of the affliction, but may still succumb/relapse. Who is someone without the chemical issues to judge the frailty of another who does? Please give me the blueprints to your mind-strength meter if you can do it.
Is it because it's self inflicted?
STDs are certainly diseases, and they are also self inflicted. I'm not sure about alcoholism myself. And if alcoholism is a disease, then you have to say having a heroin addiction is a disease, a tobacco addiction, etc. I don't know if I'm ready to make the leap that addiction in and of itself is a disease.
Fesenk's Hoe
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I could see calling it an addiction...disease, not so much.
STDs are not self inflicted. They are inflicted by the other person. A reasonable person would not have relations with someone with an STD, unless she was REALLY sexy.
STDs are not self inflicted. They are inflicted by the other person. A reasonable person would not have relations with someone with an STD, unless she was REALLY sexy.
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In some fetish circles they are.
do tell
Whiles AIDS is not an STD, so to speak, there are some homosexuals that engage in the practice of "chasing the bug."
Fesenk's Hoe
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So it's like emo gays who want attention and pity?
Sounds dirty
It is. Because in the end it kills them.
My understanding is that they do it for the thrill of the rush.
DutchJazzer
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and it does affect me.
anticonceptie is taken of heatlth insurance but the monthly premium is the same. and alcholism and tabaco adiiction is put on there.
so my money goes to things that are not disseases
anticonceptie is taken of heatlth insurance but the monthly premium is the same. and alcholism and tabaco adiiction is put on there.
so my money goes to things that are not disseases