If you seperate “addiction” into habit forming and dependancy, alcohol seems to be far safer in terms of habit forming (millions of people drink alcohol at without falling into dependancy), and far more dangerous in terms of dependancy (as you said, can kill you with withdrawal).
My (and presumably the person you quoted) internal definition of addictive skews towards the habit forming side of things, so in that respect its correctish?
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Habit forming and addiction are two different things entirely. Addiction is dependency.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
You’re right, i mis-typed, I meant addictive instead of addiction in that first sentence.
Addiction is dependency, but addictive is used commonly to describe habit forming. That may not be medically accurate, but its how the word is commonly used. With that context, the statement “Alcohol is not directively addictive” is a reasonable statement.
But you are correct, once you are addicted to alcohol, it is very dangerous.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope. Still not a reasonable statement. Alcohol is habit forming and addictive. I dunno why you keep trying to play semantics with nonsense arguments honestly.
CameronDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Because billions of people drink alcohol without forming a habit. To argue that alcohol is habit forming to the same degree as nicotine or heroine is just as wrong.
I guess we will just have to disagree.