Having seen addiction run its course it’s pretty clear that it’s a neurological issue.
Hitchens is an ignorant snob in this video.
Does Hitchens think that a lack of willpower is what has people drink until they lose their job, their home, their family and frequently their life? Does he think they willingly put drinking above their children and spouse?
It takes a tremendous amount of will power to quit an addiction, right?
So what is so unreasonable about saying that will power is lacking in people who can’t quit an addiction?
Hitchens is not saying addiction dies does not exist, he is objecting to the idea of calling it physical disease or “allergy of the body”.
No one wants to quit more than the addict or alcoholic.
“Does he think they willingly put drinking above their children and spouse?“
“Willingly”? What does THAT mean? They’re remote controlled by gremlins? The do it consciously and willfully until they either quit or die.
Why yes; yes he does. And so do I. Ask anyone who has ever been married to a self-serving, lying, manipulating, delusional alky. Everyone is wrong but them.