I have some experience dealing with addicts. While it is necessary to provide some support to an addict if you want them to recover it is also very important not buy into the BS they construct to rationalize their addiction. If you do that you simply make the problem worse by enabling their addiction. It is not an easy line to draw between providing support and avoiding enabling but no one who wants to help an addict can afford to forget that a line exists and it must not be crossed if the objective is to help the addict. I feel that similar problems exist with other psychological issues.
The same thing with bringing up a child, or raising a pet, or being a school teacher, or being a boss etc. You can't be tough to the point of heartlessness, but you can't be too lenient and enable bad behaviour. There's a balance there, I find that works well in life in general. Don't let people walk all over you, don't be jerk.
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