Are all addiction created equal?
I had a random thought. A string of thoughts.
Not sure if I reached the point I was reaching for, but here is my attempt.
I wonder, if people view addiction as they view sin. I’ve noticed Christians and nonbelievers veiw sin on a scale. Wrong doing is placed on a scale from almost acceptable to not at all. Do you? Do you veiw actions on a scale? Is telling a white lie okay, is lying via omission wrong, or is it all okay if no one gets hurt? Are some actions more sinful than others? Like killing and lying. Like adultery and coveting. Some are far worse in consequence than others, but are the actions despite the consequence worse than others? Or is the consequence of these actions the moral compass that determines right or wrong? Do you think this way?
Which is worse?
You tell me what you think about the following?
Is the addicted to drugs worse than Sex? Is the addiction to sex harder to recover from that of alcohol? What about the addicted to makeup, to food, to people are these sickness even worth mentioning? Women are addicted to these products that redesign their face. The face they identify with as who they are every day. Is natural beauty truly beautiful? People of all races, age groups, and background eat until their death. Likewise, they hoard meaningless items that overtake them.
What about their story?
Does it make a difference or just forms a petty part?
Every person has a story, a story of how or why the addiction started and slowly progressed. Some are more common than others. Some are talked about more often than others. Some are dealt with more often than others.
It’s a joke
Let’s joke about being addicted to cheese, to shoes, to hurtful people. Yet, as the shooting around me continue the jokes fade and only the truth stand behind. As the government continue to push their agenda, I wonder if the addiction to power, to control, to various unmentionable isn’t more sinful or worse than the others.
Addictions are as equal as people are equal. An addiction is like a pull from gravity. The laws of gravity is constant it seems as is addiction, depravity, habits, lifestyles, theoretically at least. I'm Oatmeal. Yeah. Haha. And there is a variety found in everything and that is a good thing, not a bad thing, and some addictions may not really be that bad like you said.
But life is all about what direction you are going in, maybe up, maybe down, as each person is different and are in different places in their lives with different paths and speeds and potential and purposes and desires, basically. Some of our choices may be good for example but they may not be the best choices we could make and some bad choices may be the best choices we could have made in those situations. So, it depends. Doing the best we can in each moment is all we can do haha. Yes. Thanks for posting, Miss Kubby Elizabeth. Or maybe I can call you Queen Elizabeth. Great name.
I agree, there is a difference between right and wrong. Everyone has the freedom to choose . Everything that is permissible is not beneficial regardless of situation or condition. Thanks for stopping by :)
Awesome. How are you?
:) I am doing well, how are you? Have you heard of MSP?
Well @kubbyelizabeth
I was addicted to smoking for 15 years.
I've since made the choice to quit and have been a non smoker now for 3 years :)
Wish I had quit sooner but to be honest, we were teenagers and didn't really think about the consequences at the time.
#smokingisnotcoolanymore #neverwas
Proud of you for quitting. You never too young to out live the consequences of your choices, but you are never too old to create a better future.
I have an addiction to Steemit. How would you view this addiction?
Before Steemit I did not care much about social media and in fact outside of Steemit I still don’t care about it. Does that change anything about my addiction? Perhaps classifies it away from having an addiction to social media?
As far as makeup always makes me sad when anyone thinks they need to wear makeup. As a guy I sometimes wonder if he/she is insecure about their own body, are they just playing into a culture thing, or if they really believe they need to cover themselves up in makeup to fit in/be accepting by society? I wish people had the confidence to care less about how paid advertisements make people think they have to look and act.
Granted that could be my own addiction to food in wanting people for their inner beauty then what is on the outside. I just sometimes feel makeup takes away instead of enhances the beauty people already have. Perhaps they use makeup to show how they feel on the inside on the outside?
As a guy I've only worn markup once in my life as a dare and I even had my fingernails painted black... As such I just can't understand it. I find male "beauty" products rather odd. She won't love you unless you smell like the rain forest!!! Ok than she can go date a tree in the rain forest. Fine by me.
lol, your last statement is hilarious! I think any addiction or any extermy is dangerous. If you are only social online and not in real life, there are pro's and con's to that too. How do you find that balance?
Balance seems to be something I say but .... ya... me and it never play nice together. People spend a lot of time trying find or have balance in life. I don't have an answer.
I tried looking for photo of me with black nail polish when I was younger. All evidence of that dare must have been destroyed! Thank goodness.
Lol, you probably did that when you came to your senses. Good call!
For me, the scale is only in the range of anticipated consequences. A sin is a sin. God cannot look upon any sin so talking about one sin being worse than another is not only meaningless but also false.“For the wages of sin is death …” (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether in thought, word, or deed.
I agree and I think everyone the believes see it as truth too. I wonder why we treat each sin so differently.
Maybe to make ourselves feel better?
No matter the addiction its still just that an addiction, whether power money food sex drugs cheese its still something that grabs hold of ones mind and refuses to remove its dirty claws. Everyone is addicted to something and is up to oneself to overcome that addiction and heal.
B-b-but I am addicted to cheese :0
You bring up a good question on what could be considered an addiction or sin. I may not have the popular opinion here, but I believe that an action is not the relfection of a sin but the reason behind it.
A white lie that may not hurt anyone? If you have to lie to "save" anybody, you're probably better off not lying. I used to have an addiction to many things, and I think it comes down to balance and moderation.
My mentor once had me write a list of all of the bad things I do, and a separate list for all of the good things. He then told me that both lists are fine, as long as everything was done in moderation. Really changed me.
You remind me of the saying, the ends justify the means. I wonder what the world would be like if we couldn’t sin. Free will has a way of inviting evil into our lives.
I like this. If only free will came with a responsibility bundled with it. The more freedom there is, the more opportunity for it to get abused!
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