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Are you just making a specious argument, or are you literally arguing that acting in accordance with one's values will cause bigger problems than engaging in addictive behavior?

But in moderation (heh), eating vitamins is much, much better for you than eating potato chips.

Nobody's arguing for an excess of anything. Obviously a completely locked down subreddit that rejects and deletes all posts and comments would be useless, but so would one that's completely unmoderated.

>Obviously a completely locked down subreddit that rejects and deletes all posts and comments would be useless,

Not necessarily. Reddit used to have some of those as running jokes. /r/blackfathers and such. Disagreeable uses are still uses.

Sure, but that's more of an art installation. Duchamp's Fountains is a neat work of art, but I can't really use it for its intended purpose.

Firstly, you probably could do what you mean for that specific piece, at least once or twice. But more importantly, that statement presupposes the wrong intended purpose.

The thing about metaphors is that they're just metaphors, not equalities.