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QAPereo on July 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxyg...

When you start to look at thrillseekers as addicts, it starts to make a lot more sense. It's just that to get high, they take risks instead of using drugs, but the personality and the lack of concern for others in the face of that addiction is more than just similar I believe.

_khau on July 18, 2017 [–]

So now we're comparing explorers to drug addicts.

Are fucking serious?

QAPereo on July 18, 2017 | [–]

Yes, very much, and there's research to back up my point. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3604176/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432815...

It's the same circuitry involved in taking drugs or gambling, or jumping out of airplanes.

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