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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by icebraining on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:13PM (#8499737)
Should people with uncontrollable addictions have rights outside of the right to treatment? I'm not so sure...

Even if you could make that case in theory, how do you define addition in such a way that doesn't allow any disliked behavior to be classified as "addiction"?

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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by axotty on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:46PM (#8499949)
Tobacco use is scientifically an addiction[0]. It is not merely classified as one. So your concerns are baseless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence

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Re:More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the... by icebraining on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:38PM (#8500603)
So only physically dependent people get their rights taken away? Seems discriminatory.
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