# What's the craziest thing you absolutely 100% believe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368 "2014-06-09T00:25:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/121 "2014-06-14T21:58:40Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Yeah. Alcohol is legal, does _anybody_ **want** to become an alcoholic? Well, that was the line during prohibition… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/122 "2014-06-14T22:24:19Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > But not everybody has a positive reaction to alcohol. > > I absolutely have no real-life proof of this, but doesn’t heroin really only have one feeling: goooooooood? > > So maybe people don’t want to become alcoholics because it makes them sad/angry, but they’ll become heroin addicts because it makes them feel so good I believe that even heroin addicts don’t want to be heroin addicts. I also believe that smokers don’t actually want to be smokers (based on my experiences as an on-off smoker and what I’ve learned from other smokers). I think feeling good doesn’t have jack to do with it. Addiction just does nasty things to your brain. It certainly screws with your ability to make sensible decisions. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/123 "2014-06-14T22:39:06Z")
New ones: “Crazy ex-wife” is redundant. “Murphy’s Law” doesn’t describe the unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/124 "2014-06-14T22:45:48Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I believe that even heroin addicts don’t want to be heroin addicts. I also believe that smokers don’t actually want to be smokers (based on my experiences as an on-off smoker and what I’ve learned from other smokers). > > I think feeling good doesn’t have jack to do with it. Addiction just does nasty things to your brain. It certainly screws with your ability to make sensible decisions. Talking about a couple different things here: 1. Affect of heroin: it’s a depressant, so depressants do all kinds of nasty things to your nerve endings. 2. Nicotine: nicotine is a stimulant, but it’s considered in a class by itself. It’s not so much that nicotine makes people feel good, but it stops them from feeling withdrawal when the amount of nicotine drops. In a way, nicotine resembles a depressant more than a stimulant, in that you have to keep taking it to avoid feeling bad. 3. Addictive Personality: It’s no longer in the DSM of psychiatry, but usually if someone has an addictive personality, they can become addicted to anything, e.g. tv, internet, heroin, etc. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/125 "2014-06-15T20:08:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Huh. I _found_ a CD in 2010. **Best of Bread**. Care to claim it?😃 😃 I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-absolutely-100-believe/690368/126 "2014-06-15T20:17:26Z")
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