You can probably all think of pubs that make a great deal of money from alcoholics, but how about this situation. There was this small take away food shop /cafe and that was operated by an older couple. When a fat person would come in the shop the man in the kitchen would start rubbing his hands together because he could see another $50 in the till in a short while.
substances are only a tiny fraction of the things people become addicted to. familiar ways of doing things are many times more of them. pretty much all of entertainment, when it is done for money, and art, when it is about making money from it, rather then trying to inspire people to dream their own dreams and come up with their own ideas, pretty much every kind of marketing even, its all about creating and profiting from addictions of one kind or another. is any of it ethical? probably not. but its a reality most people seem to take for granted and accept. without ever giving it a second thought. and when they do think about it, they just accept what they've been told, that everything the love and enjoy, couldn't possibly exist without people doing so. which isn't true either, but its what people not only believe, but tell each other to believe, and even brutalize and terrorize each other if they refuse to.
That's a complex issue. It would be bad if a person was addicted to prostitutes. However - I don't think that's an argument against prostitution per se.
is it not? the reward system in the brain causes the desire to repeat certain actions, some beneficial to survival become reinforced and thus are repeatedly performed. the same reward system is responsible for the reinforcement of addictive behavior, even though those behaviors are not necessary for survival and may be harmful.
food and eating can be compulsive but it's not the same as addictions compulsions are normal behaviors which become neurotic whereas addictions are abnormal desires which at their inception are neurotic on the one hand a person comes and overindulges in a normal and necessary behavior on the other hand a person is introduced to something unusual and then they are reintroduced to it until they crave it - hence pushing pushers do in fact keep you interested when you forget and they change sales scheme to keep you on the hook there are lots of bad karmas to dealing even where the drug is legal like in amsterdam being associated with an addictive substance is unbecoming because maybe they quit the drug, then they must quit you you lose free time with all those people always calling you lose peace of mind always having to watch your back those are a few things which come to mind right off some people like the power of purveying to addicts because certainly you get money, power, sex, trades, and other things, and when they're up people love their dealers on the other hand people will never love you for you and that's a shame
What about making money off of people who are addicted to fitness? Is that such a bad thing? I can only seeing it as being negative if the person addicted to fitness had some sort of body dimorphic disorder. What if the person was addicted to fitness because they want to simply be a better human?
