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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There are people in the world who think addiction doesn't exist full stop. That's part of the reason I used gambling addiction as an example.

You aren't going to convince people who don't believe. It's not worth it to try to remind them because they aren't going to change their mind unless they experience it in their real lives.

But the problem here is that the aim of this group isn't to bring awareness of porn addiction, and advocate for the people afflicted with it. The main aim of this group is to further their religion based vendetta against the porn industry. That's actively harmful to people like you who have an addiction. Specifically because it makes other people take you less seriously.

And yet here you are trying to (at best) hitch your sail about pron addiction to an article and discussion about a group that are actively harming you, who also did a bunch of illegal shit to people who studied the group and released information about it that wasn't flattering to them

Those illegal actions include doxxing and inciting people to sexually assault one of those researchers.

Maybe read the room.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

My comment isn't off topic. It's an issue I care about so I speak up. I do not self-censor because the room is primed to turn against me. Not a single thing I've said here in any shape or form is defending the extremists of the NoFap community.