“It DOESN’T hurt when addicts drink.”
Hahahahaha. Perhaps, if one lives alone, has no other meaningful work or relational interactions, never has the MANY serious medical conditions they will most certainly suffer and doesn’t kill himself or another accidentally. Every drunkard insists “they are only hurting themselves.” One of the great fallacies of the many delusions propagated by continual drunkenness. The reality is, just like smoking, drugs and all the other “electives” that you can become habituated to, it will shorten your life in some way. That seems, to me at least, to be a harm.
Of course it’s harmful. But its harmful because it’s so easy and compulsive.
It’s genetic.