> I was an addict. I know what I am talking about.
You know what your lived experience was, that doesn't make you an expert on how addiction works on a physiological level.
> Ultimately you have to want to quit. That is a decision made by me. That requires my own agency.
You're just repeating truisms. Yes of course people have to want to quit, but out of the people who want to quit, most are unable to follow through. They relapse despite fighting like hell inside their own minds.
> From your jab earlier about my apparent "conservationism"
You mean the thing that didn't even cross my mind until you brought it up, unprompted, after repeating the exact ideas I would expect from the group you claimed that you weren't apart of? And then in the same breath accusing me of not understanding anything about addiction?
That was slightly amusing, yes. I'm sorry you found that offensive.
P.S. I don't know why you accept that you were in full control of your addiction, nor do I care because I'm not trying to take away from your own personal experience. If that makes it easier for you to move forward, I'm genuinely happy for you, but you don't get to use it to lift yourself up and put others down the way you've been doing.
You know what your lived experience was, that doesn't make you an expert on how addiction works on a physiological level.
> Ultimately you have to want to quit. That is a decision made by me. That requires my own agency.
You're just repeating truisms. Yes of course people have to want to quit, but out of the people who want to quit, most are unable to follow through. They relapse despite fighting like hell inside their own minds.
> From your jab earlier about my apparent "conservationism"
You mean the thing that didn't even cross my mind until you brought it up, unprompted, after repeating the exact ideas I would expect from the group you claimed that you weren't apart of? And then in the same breath accusing me of not understanding anything about addiction?
That was slightly amusing, yes. I'm sorry you found that offensive.
P.S. I don't know why you accept that you were in full control of your addiction, nor do I care because I'm not trying to take away from your own personal experience. If that makes it easier for you to move forward, I'm genuinely happy for you, but you don't get to use it to lift yourself up and put others down the way you've been doing.