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Re:Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic g... by ams6110 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:58AM (#17774632)
There is a reason humans evolved morality to regulate bad behavior. Morality helps you resist your base desires and do what is better for yourself and the group in the long term.

Do people become addicts because of moral failing? In some (many?) cases, yes. Not all, and not undeserving of treatment/help to recover in any case.

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Re:Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic g... by maxerickson on Thursday August 16, 2018 @10:16AM (#17774754)
Fascinating how often it gets subverted by a portion of the group though.
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Re:Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic g... by sturgill on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:15PM (#17776584)
One of my favorite lines of the Bible are these simple words from Jesus Himself: "They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick." It turns out that most of us are more like the Pharisees that Jesus railed against: convinced of our own moral superiority. I think that's a natural instinct of human nature (independent of one's professed religious beliefs).
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