03-16-2020, 02:26 PM
Addiction is not always a disease. In rare cases, it is. In many cases, it's just a result of poor choices. Otherwise most of Hollywood and all rock singers are diseased in more ways than one.
Calling it a disease, and then equating it with cholera, for instance, as a result, makes no sense.
As to the statement 'germ theory is not much better at understanding diseases than humoralism' - I mean, we understand the mechanisms by which viruses latch on to specific cells in the animal or human body, so unless you give me an example of where the theory of humoralism has similar explaining power, that assertion makes no sense either.
Calling it a disease, and then equating it with cholera, for instance, as a result, makes no sense.
As to the statement 'germ theory is not much better at understanding diseases than humoralism' - I mean, we understand the mechanisms by which viruses latch on to specific cells in the animal or human body, so unless you give me an example of where the theory of humoralism has similar explaining power, that assertion makes no sense either.