And a lazy person probably couldn’t be bothered to go out and get the drug that cures laziness, either.
Would they? I would, if it was cheap and available enough.
There’s an important difference between things people would change if they could do it at zero cost (lazyness, disease, shyness, obesity, possibly a psychopath’s pathology), and the things people wouldn’t change even if they could at zero cost (being offended by racism, being offended by pictures of Mohammed, caring about other people). That’s why I don’t find that disease is a very good analogy.
That’s why I don’t find that disease is a very good analogy.
Some features of diseases are applicable to this situation—most aren’t, but if any of the features it does have recommend a treatment like social pressure, then ‘disease’ is a good enough analogy.
(For the record, I don’t think disease is a good analogy. The closest this situation comes to being a disease is that we don’t want them to have it; they want to keep it.)
Would they? I would, if it was cheap and available enough.
There’s an important difference between things people would change if they could do it at zero cost (lazyness, disease, shyness, obesity, possibly a psychopath’s pathology), and the things people wouldn’t change even if they could at zero cost (being offended by racism, being offended by pictures of Mohammed, caring about other people). That’s why I don’t find that disease is a very good analogy.
Some features of diseases are applicable to this situation—most aren’t, but if any of the features it does have recommend a treatment like social pressure, then ‘disease’ is a good enough analogy.
(For the record, I don’t think disease is a good analogy. The closest this situation comes to being a disease is that we don’t want them to have it; they want to keep it.)