The question from Yahoo Answers:
Is an addiction really broken if you just remove it?
If you have a donkey that drinks all your bourbon and you separate the two, you now have your bourbon and a thirsty donkey.
Teaching the donkey to stop wanting the bourbon is fine, but he can't ever have any again or he'll go right back to being a bourbon drinking donkey. You cannot unmake a drinking donkey unless you keep it away from your hooch.
The kicker, is of course that donkey's have a bad memory and forget that they have been trained not to drink.
But yes, you can teach an old donkey new tricks, so long as he avoids his old ones.
Teaching the donkey to stop wanting the bourbon is fine, but he can't ever have any again or he'll go right back to being a bourbon drinking donkey. You cannot unmake a drinking donkey unless you keep it away from your hooch.
The kicker, is of course that donkey's have a bad memory and forget that they have been trained not to drink.
But yes, you can teach an old donkey new tricks, so long as he avoids his old ones.
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