Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Microblog #26, "Opening Skinner's Box, Chapter 7"

Summary
In this chapter, Bruce Alexander does studies of rats & heroin that appear to contradict conventional wisdom with respect to addiction.

Discussion
I think everyone in this chapter is trying to make things way to simple. To me, the notion that "addiction is overrated" is more disturbing than the traditional view. It's one thing for the American drug using population to be sending their money to destroy Latin America because they can't help it; it's quite another for them to do it for nothing but kicks, over and over.

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