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Exactly. Its the people who can't or won't control their usage of anything vice that is the problem. An addict may have a problem, but for society they are the problem
Society in turn creates the vast majority of the addicts in the first place by refusing to remedy conditions (unemployment, ineffective medical treatment, divorce, sexual revolution giving unattached sex no consequence, pourus border allowing drugs through, the replacement of religion with secular relativism, etc.) As much as it is the responsibility of the individual to not adapt a maladaptive coping mechanism it is the resposibility of the society to maintain an environment that requires less cope and not just pass out anti-depressants so people can be addicted to them instead of hitting the bottle, needle, or becoming permiscious.
Those things incentive substance abuse or addictive behaviors as a short term coping mechanism. It is still a personal failing to give into these, demonstrated by others, in the same society demonstrating an ability to participate, and refrain from participating in vice.
I don't know what sort of half brained bootstraps conservatism you're trying to convey here. If the addiction is temporary but the trigger exists on a societal level then there will always be a percentage of the population experiencing addiction so society's gripe with addicted individuals is the gripe it has with itself. Lessening the trigger at the societal level is the only thing that can be done so fewer addicts are created in the first place so they never are forced to recover from addiction and those who are adicts experience fewer relaspes.
What you're describing is essentially the meme where the drowning person is given a high five instead of being pulled from the water.
rent. you could live for years in most of the world what it costs to rent for just a week in "western style modern society"
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