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Dennis Hackethal revised idea #761.
4 unchanged lines collapsedThe chain smoker from my example is conflicted about smoking, right? Yet continues to do it anyway. Where do people learn to do things theydon’t want to do?[^1]feel conflicted about? Inschool.[^2]↵ ↵ [^1]: I mean “do things they don’t want to do” as in: the smoker doesn’t want to smoke *and* doesn’t want to not smoke at the same time. They ‘know’ they don’t want to smoke as in ‘they are aware they have conflicting preferences’. They know *part* of them doesn’t want it, to be precise. They ‘don’t want to do it’ as in: it’s not a hell yes. It’s not a course of action without any outstanding criticisms. So it’s not a rational decision.↵ [^2]:school.[^1]↵ ↵ [^1]: This is out of scope for the topic of addiction and deserves a more thorough treatment, but I think school could be one of *the* major causes of crime in this same epistemological sense. Since I’m guessing most criminals feel conflicted about whatever crime they’re about to commit but then commit it anyway.