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== Initial Choices ==

== Initial Choices ==

[[Addiction]]s and deeply embedded compulsive behavior patterns differ from true [[illness]]es in that their progressive alteration of the brain is directed by choices, especially ''initial choices''. They are therefore reinforced by ''the progressive erosion of the ability to choose differently''. The capacity for moral choice is gradually undermined as the compulsion tightens its grip.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=11 |pages=175–6 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=}}</ref>  

[[Addiction]]s and deeply embedded compulsive behavior patterns differ from true [[illness]]es in that their progressive alteration of the brain is directed by choices, especially ''initial choices''. They are therefore reinforced by ''the progressive erosion of the ability to choose differently''. The capacity for moral choice is gradually undermined as the compulsion tightens its grip.<ref name="Satinover1996">{{cite book |title=Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author=Jeffrey Burke Satinover |publisher=Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=11 |pages=140, 175–6 |isbn=9780801056253 |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62588.Homosexuality_and_the_Politics_of_Truth |quote=}}</ref>

== Destroying effects of compulsive pursuits ==

== Destroying effects of compulsive pursuits ==