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This is such a false dichotomy. Even if you assume addiction can be a disease, self-control is still absolutely an element in overcoming it.

It's also not necessarily an either/or thing, and the existence of people who have broken addictions through exercise of their own self-control completely dismantles your black-and-white argument.



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