>>2565883To actually contribute a bit:
The author is correct in what he says, there is no question about this. Yet, it presents an incomplete picture because the problem is only described from a psychological/philosophical standpoint. What is completely ignored? The biological/neurological aspect of the problem. And of course this is to be expected since the author is not a biologist.
Yet the problem has already been dismantled from the biological viewpoint. The reason is that we are a victim to our hormones and is very hard to overcome this programming. First you have to be aware of it and then, know how to work around it. Barely anyone knows it. Thus, Biology is at the foundation of the problem and the psychology/philosophy behind it is just dealing with the fundamental biological problem trying to explain the it and thus, trying to find a workaround. Yet, if you ignore the Biological part, you will never understand the problem completely.
The underlying process is the biological dopamine cycle and how it relates to "habits and addiction". From this cycle, the human behavior for the problem at hand originates. Then psychology comes up and tries to explain the mind games the human has to deal while suffering from that problem. If you want to know the biological aspect of this, I recommend the following video. After that, in ADDITION to understanding the psychological aspects, you will have a clear picture. This should be enough to shut down most future debate of the topic. It is tiresome seeing people still not getting the problem after literally years of available "literature":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DclqE-9vFgYI recommend watching that (maybe look for more) and THEN connect the dots between biology and psychology. If you can't do that then tough luck, you need to educate yourself further until you do. If not, don't try to part of the discussion and continue being a serf.
