Originally Posted By: Derid
Should a opiate addict go through painful withdrawal and kick the habit?


Not if doing so will force this opiate addict to lose both legs and getting fed from the tube for the rest of the life, in such abstract case you are better off to sticking with the habit.

Your analogy fails because you assume that withdrawal will short-term eventually bring you to equal or better level than with the habit. Global economy is not like that, you can permanently (for generations) fuck it up. Fall of Rome showed this to us.

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