Stop Stuff

“Seeing victims everywhere you look is the zeitgeist, it is what gives people license to behave as they like while feeling virtuous. Virtue is not manifested in one’s behavior, always so difficult and tedious to control, but in one’s attitude toward victims.” -Theodore Dalrymple

People who say "Addicts can't stop" are self-aggrandizing.

“The American philosopher Herbert Fingarette pointed out in his book Heavy Drinking that experiments show that even very drunk chronic alcoholics (than which no addiction is more chronic) can resist the temptation to have another drink if they have an incentive to do so. Their problem is that they rarely do have such an incentive.” -Theodore Dalrymple