Is Addiction a Positive or Negative Human Trait

Some people have very addictive personalities where as some people have the opposite, and many fall into the in between.

Addiction is often paraded as a negative word. It is very rare that it is used in the positive sense.

But it 'can' be used in a positive sense.

In fact, wouldn't you rather spend your life with a partner who is somewhat of the addictive in nature rather than someone who's more predisposed to chop and change their needs like the wind?

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What is it that makes one thing a bad thing to be addicted to and another a good thing to be addicted to?

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Addiction can be positive if it makes you active in a way that has more positivity than negativity.I think it would make you a dull person if you didn't have at least some addiction.

The actual use of the word is typically negative. You are addicted to drugs but you are dedicated to work.

They can mean the same thing but people use them in different contexts.

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Agree with Mr.Bill.

Merriam Webster definition of addiction is: a strong and harmful need to regularly have something or do something

You are confusing it with dedication.
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Sneakypaw wrote:
I am addicted to air. :D

I don't know, it makes me feel alive.



FACT: 100% of people who exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide DIE!

FACT: Air is so addicting that you die within A FEW MINUTES FROM WITHDRAWAL!

FACT: Air is the key ingredient in FIRE
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Sneakypaw wrote:
I am addicted to air. :D

I don't know, it makes me feel alive.



FACT: 100% of people who exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide DIE!

FACT: Air is so addicting that you die within A FEW MINUTES FROM WITHDRAWAL!

FACT: Air is the key ingredient in FIRE


Air is a key ingredient in fire? ... I am dependant on air..

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reboticon wrote:
Agree with Mr.Bill.

Merriam Webster definition of addiction is: a strong and harmful need to regularly have something or do something

You are confusing it with dedication.


Even still, at some point dedication will become addiction. At what specific point does one become the other? Under what specific definition of 'harmful'?

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I am addicted to my waifu.
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Last edited by skinnay#1438 on Jan 10, 2015, 7:20:06 AM

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