I don’t think addiction IS a form of akrasia.
Why, pray tell, not? Surely heroin addicts would rather not be heroin addicts, and yet they are.
Are you sure about that? Beware generalizing from a sample of one.
Heroin addiction is in most cases carefully cultivated by the addict, for a variety of reasons, and stopping is not really difficult.
I recommend Theodore Dalrymple’s insightful book Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy for clarification as to why akrasia and heroin addiction are not related.
I’m generalizing from a sample of zero, in fact.
That’s the wittiest expression for “I’m reporting my prior” that I’ve seen in the last five minutes! :D
I don’t think addiction IS a form of akrasia.
Why, pray tell, not? Surely heroin addicts would rather not be heroin addicts, and yet they are.
Are you sure about that? Beware generalizing from a sample of one.
Heroin addiction is in most cases carefully cultivated by the addict, for a variety of reasons, and stopping is not really difficult.
I recommend Theodore Dalrymple’s insightful book Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy for clarification as to why akrasia and heroin addiction are not related.
I’m generalizing from a sample of zero, in fact.
That’s the wittiest expression for “I’m reporting my prior” that I’ve seen in the last five minutes! :D