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by rixed 622 days ago
I think we hear you, we should all take more care about bad lifestyle, everybody should exercise regularly and eat healthy food. But to be fair nobody has promoted a bad lifestyle, or said that, given there is this new drug let's care even less.

At the contrary, given the testimonies it sounds like the drug helps people to adopt better habits, no?

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> given the testimonies it sounds like the drug helps people to adopt better habits, no?

No, it helps people live a better lifestyle so long as they remain on this drug. The feeling/impulses are artificially suppressed.

Maybe they come right back if you stop taking the drug. One would hope you can take the drug until in a good place to take over on your own. Time will see - a great experiment is about to take place.

> feeling/impulses are artificially suppressed.

A lot of people are less capable of controlling those impulse on their own and are inherently more prone to developing addictions than others due to genetic/etc. reasons. Yes they can make different choices, change their lifestyles, adopt certain routines etc. all which would require a huge amount of effort just to get on part with people who can achieve those things (relatively) almost effortlessly.

Why should they be forced to suffer due to something they have limited control over?