Re: CHATter: reason &/or faith (wasRe: another new language to check out)

Czhang:
> 3}   a)  "Addiction does not make sense or logic. If it did make even a
> bit of sense or logic, there would not be so many addicts 'cuz who in
> their _right mind_ actually wants to be a 'junkie' (with all the
> insanity and heartbreak that socially-despised condition entails)?"
Some of my addictions makes sense & logic to me. Addiction to X works
by making the addict feel bad when they don't have X. Having X makes
the bad feeling go away. The feeling of a bad feeling going away
feels like pleasure. If X is easily available, it is possible to
have pleasure regularly throughout the day. There aren't many
things that can provide such regular and reliable pleasure.

Another plausible explanation for the glamour of self-harming
activity, I came across in a book by Jared Diamond. He suggests
that it is akin to the peacock tail phenomenon: the organism
advertises its own health through showing that it has so much
health that it can easily afford to inflict harm on itself.
Hence it is quite cool to be an addict up to the point at
which the harm becomes too blatant.

The logic in both phenomena is suicidally perverse, but not
nonexistent.

--And.

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