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by NoPicklez 14 days ago
> IMO if you intentionally and knowingly engineer something for addiction you are committing a form of assault.

Whilst I agree that addictive things can be bad how far does this ago? Food manufacturers purposely make foods that are addictive. Video game companies use ways to make games more addictive.

Companies make things that we want and sometimes we get addicted to wanting it too much.

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> Whilst I agree that addictive things can be bad how far does this ago?

We don't need to get bogged down in this question before doing the first obvious thing and banning the most addictive things known to exist.