Disease and weakness

The disease reading says addiction is a medical condition with neural mechanisms. Reward circuits, receptor changes, genetic vulnerability. Right that the changes are real, that the person is not at fault for the body’s response to repeated coupling, and that the response should include care rather than only condemnation. Wrong to make the person a passive site. Override is real. Recovery without the operator’s own authority is not recovery.

The weakness reading says addiction is a failure of will. Right that override exists and that commitments are the person’s own. Wrong to make a structural narrowing a moral category. The corridor that has narrowed is the corridor the present override is operating inside. Reading the commitment without reading its conditions is reading at the wrong resolution.

Both caught something. Neither installed the account.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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