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It's all about how cool/relaxed a culture is capable of being. Addiction automatically implies a negative connotation, so let's assume that you just mean 'most dudes in the country have a couple thousand pics of porn on their computer and some tapes'. The reason why it's not a PROBLEM in other countries is precisely because it's not a big DEAL. This can go for other things. Unfortunately, even if we were to do the arch-liberatarian (read: right) thing and do up gay marriage, pot, lowered liquor age and other stuff, there would still exist a valid, conservative argument against such changes-not because of 'right or wrong', as measured in either Christian terms or the more agreeable social ills, but precisely because it was our rotten fucking luck to be descended from puritans. Our culture literally might not know how to deal with such fun, and we could conceivably (not necessarily) exhibit higher rates of drug abuse/other social ills after various things are liberalized. At least at first; we might come around only after a generation or two (provided we're not scared into going back). Thanks a fucking lot, Johnathan Edwards.