Earlier this week while lecturing to my senior seminar, I uttered the following sentence: “Being sober is always worse.”
When the students laughed at this, I was jolted out of my concentration and quickly realized how ridiculous I sounded. There is a reasonable explanation. I was describing one of the features of relative addiction theory, as proposed by psychologists Howard Rachlin, Gene Heyman, and others. But to my students it sounded like I was expressing a personal preference for drunkenness.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment