A person who reads a lot might become something like a meth-head. Crippled and diseased.
Would you care to elaborate on that? Seen from the outside it sounds quite… nonsensical but I may very well be too much of a reader myself to still be able to understand too complex notions. Or maybe I’m already dead?
If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.
It’s logically straightforward.
Not any more than saying ‘if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death’. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.
In your situation, saying “if reading is like a drug” doesn’t magically turns reading into an actual drug (the ‘if’ part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.
A person who reads a lot might become something like a meth-head. Crippled and diseased.
If everybody’s doing it then nobody notices, of course. And the non-reader would become the suspicious deviant.
Have you heard of any evidence for that, or did you just make it up without thinking about how little sense it makes?
Would you care to elaborate on that? Seen from the outside it sounds quite… nonsensical but I may very well be too much of a reader myself to still be able to understand too complex notions. Or maybe I’m already dead?
I’m extending the metaphor of reading as drug.
That I understand (I can read ;)), what I don’t understand is how you manage to come to such an odd conclusion. Based on what?
If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.
It’s logically straightforward.
Not any more than saying ‘if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death’. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.
In your situation, saying “if reading is like a drug” doesn’t magically turns reading into an actual drug (the ‘if’ part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.
Ah, so it’s actually a retort that you wish to express. Specifically, “But reading isn’t like a drug!”
Well I disagree.