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by woooooo 163 days ago
Setting aside the bad analogy, real people are much more likely to eat broccoli than to do heroin.
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Once they've had a taste of both?
I am confident that the number of broccoli eaters exceeds the number of heroin users.
I would posit that is because many more people have had a taste of broccoli than of heroin.
You would posit based on what? Defunct rats-pressing-pleasure-button studies?

Many people have had "heroin" in the form of morphine in the hospital. They don’t turn into morphine-seekers.

Addiction and pleasure seeking is more complex than having a taste and then being hooked forever. Of course many people can't get out of this Skinner Box type of mindset.