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Originally Posted by lostalex
by your logic cancer is not a medical disease eigther then, because many people claim to have cured themselves through holistic herbal rememdies and stuff.
Addiction has nothing to do with willpower. Addiction is like diabetes. you can manage it through a strict regime, but it is incredibly difficult. But you cannot choose to be an addict, just like you cannot choose to be a diabetic.
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Let's not compare diseases / illnesses. A person cannot control whether they get cancer - continually using such illnesses is a complete red herring and is throwing the debate completely off the rails. It is not comparable - cancer victims have absolutely no say - none whatsoever.
Anorexics and obese people do have control. And that is the very point - many anorexics have psychological issue whereby they are able to exercise control in what they eat.
that is not alwys the case for those who are obese. Many people end up obese through nothing more than lack of exercise, lack of willpower, and not really giving a damn about how they look. It's only when they max out physcially that some start bleating about 'having an illness, can't help themselves' - when a lot of the time - it comes down to them expecting others to do the hard work for them.