In this episode I will discuss: final thoughts on reductionism, most parents teach addiction indirectly, many addicted people behave in bizarre ways, a summons is a threat of violence, understanding causal conditions, I am not experiencing cognitive dissonance for choosing to attend jury duty, almost all jurors do not understand what rights are and where they originate, review of the so - called disease of addiction, the disease is noted by symptoms, no actual disease marker, the denial trap, the disease idea is tied to the 12 Steps of AA and NA, there is no such thing as powerlessness over an addiction, the self - fulfilling prophecy of believing in the disease of addiction, conditioning, addiction does not have to be a chronic life -  long condition, spirituality and religion.