I think it would have to be reserved for egregious cases to start with, and perhaps that would be enough to have a chilling effect and scare people away from intentional addiction engineering.

I share concerns about this but I feel like eventually it won’t matter. We are getting so good at addicting each other and it’s getting so ubiquitous that eventually I think there will be a crusade with a lot of collateral damage.

Either that or we will just accept a society with a massive Matrix-like addict slave class. Maybe that’s the outcome.