Logically speaking either this is bullshit or everybody who has ever said that they are struggling to give up smoking is lying.
Logically speaking either this is bullshit or everybody who has ever said that they are struggling to give up smoking is lying.
In other words drug addicts really want to be addicts. Otherwise they would have given up already.
I suppose it's a useful canard if you're trying to justify American pro-corporate agricultural policy.
That is a reasonably accurate definition of the word "addiction", yes. When they no longer want the drug, then they are not addicted to it any more (this is a good example of how hard it can be to really change your desires).
You appear to have some unstated objection to the notion that a dysfunctional desire is still a desire. I don't think this conversation can make any meaningful progress if you continue to avoid stating it.