Than down vote it , yes , I believe the less mod interference the better , we as a community can down vote it , I don ' t need mods determining what I see . <| sep |> Ok , sounds good to me ! Which Mareanie do you want ? Tell me which line please and I ' ll add you now . <| sep |> Ah , TIL . Still , my point is we don ' t need to worry too much about making hyperrealistic lighting when models are still clipping like crazy and my dude is standing flatfooted on the edge of a cliff with one foot floating in air . <| sep |> My argument for why this idea is false is based on the following rational Our brains have evolved naturally to repeatedly seek out things that give us pleasure , like food , sex , social status etc . If you take that definition of addiction and remove the causes problems qualifier in its second half and I think we should because all habits cause at least one problem they take up time and energy , then we have no choice but to accept that addiction , though it may be a problem in many instances , is not a disease , because it represents our natural , inborn response to things that make us feel good . It is natural to seek what gives us pleasure . But an addict does something different he continues seeking out something even after it has ceased to give him pleasure . If you ask a heroin addict who ' s been on the stuff for years , he will most likely tell you that he doesn ' t really get high anymore . He takes it to feel normal , not to seek pleasure . And not only that he continues to use heroin , even though it has many negative effects on his life . It ' s like the experiment with the rat that will kill itself using Cocaine by pressing a button , prefering it to eating and drinking water . So you could say that addiction builds upon a natural behavior heroin feels good , so you want to take it all the time , but it becomes pathological at a certain point . Generally , there are many things that point to the fact that addiction is a disease . I ' m not an expert on the subject so I ' m sure someone else will explain it much better than I can and provide some examples . One thing that I do know is that there ' s a genetical component to addiction . Some people are more prone to it than others . And you can see the differences when you investigate people ' s brain chemistry . This suggests that addiction is indeed a disease . But you don ' t even need all these biological factors if you think that depression or other mental illnesses are diseases , then addiction surely is a disease too . In a way , you could describe addiction as a special form of obsessivecompulsive personality disorder .