Yeah because there’s nothing physically, mentally and even socially addictive about the number one brand in the world, packed with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and/or questionable sweeteners 🙄
Next you’re gonna share the brilliant insight that it’s cheaper to not smoke tobacco…
No, I’m saying that it’s not that simple to just forgo something addictive.
I’m an ex smoker (and ex drinker) myself, so while I would never recommend smoking (or drinking to excess), I have very little patience for people assuming or implying that addictions are easily kicked.
That shit can control significant parts of your whole life, sometimes in subtle ways you weren’t even aware of.
So, you agree people should not start drinking Coca Cola, and for their own health and finances they should make every effort to stop drinking Coca Cola.
Yeah, but it isn’t that simple, is what I’m saying.
You’re pretending that it’s a completely unencumbered choice. That there’s no social and societal pressures making lifelong coca cola abstinence viewed as evidence of being in a cult or mentally unwell.
Likewise, addictions fight you hard when you try to get rid of them, much harder than anyone who’s never been addicted can even imagine.
Fact is that it’s NOT an unencumbered choice at all, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help anyone.
Yeah because there’s nothing physically, mentally and even socially addictive about the number one brand in the world, packed with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and/or questionable sweeteners 🙄
Next you’re gonna share the brilliant insight that it’s cheaper to not smoke tobacco…
Are you suggesting people should not be encouraged to quit smoking?
No, I’m saying that it’s not that simple to just forgo something addictive.
I’m an ex smoker (and ex drinker) myself, so while I would never recommend smoking (or drinking to excess), I have very little patience for people assuming or implying that addictions are easily kicked.
That shit can control significant parts of your whole life, sometimes in subtle ways you weren’t even aware of.
So, you agree people should not start drinking Coca Cola, and for their own health and finances they should make every effort to stop drinking Coca Cola.
Yeah, but it isn’t that simple, is what I’m saying.
You’re pretending that it’s a completely unencumbered choice. That there’s no social and societal pressures making lifelong coca cola abstinence viewed as evidence of being in a cult or mentally unwell.
Likewise, addictions fight you hard when you try to get rid of them, much harder than anyone who’s never been addicted can even imagine.
Fact is that it’s NOT an unencumbered choice at all, and pretending otherwise doesn’t help anyone.