I see the gravity is greater - except maybe in coutries where drugs carry life prison or even death??
Maybe the idea that sex isn't an incureable addiction is the point - which I tend to agree with but have little evidence of save working out what aspect of the same is prevalent in women - or is it a male only 'disease' that is incureable somehow?? I find that concept tricky to accept since I don't buy that one chromosome makes some more 'evil' than others!
I'd suggest it's more to do with repressive dogma and restrictive practices within the natural bonds of marriage as to why other addictions become an outlet - such as drugs/alcohol/smoking whateva? I even wonder about homosexuality being an imprinting due an overexposure to one role model above anothet but I'm sure physiological considerations are also at play!
Interesting comments!
The difficulty also is its micro-cosmic perspective!
Take the following:
No killing and so no armed forces will contain a JW! This means they will, in time, feel apathy toward anger in ways which may implore some to harm others - a natural conditioning over time!
What's the problem? If the whole worlds values are the same there isn't one!
But since JWs are in all sorts of countries world wide there is a problem!
What is it?
It is this:
In whatever country a tabboo exists over whatever practise they deem 'unforgiveable' or verging on that parallel - JWs will slowly but surely reduce its significance in collectively referring to all sin as of equal contempt before god! That is the collective package and what dillutes the seriousness of some aspects of a specific culture of society in the minds of followers of the WT ethics package.
So in some ways it helps humans overcome sinful tendencies = like some serious drug users have been known to clean up, but it also offers a helping hand to ones for whom JW lifestyle is not in tune with their soul = remission into previous 'crutches' of life they used previously or some other form of 'escapism' from the sadness of their reality!
IMO most all humans will function well and with due regard for others if given the required love and human contact others of us have as a given - but replicating it is often nigh impossible due to it having taken you a lifetme to build it already!
So how to reform is more how to build a tribe around a person - a community - rather than how to lock them all away ( but that's a 'hope' I still possess for my inner view of humanitarianism and not necessarily a feasable reality) It is a belief I have in spite of all I know! I do tend to trust the human in us!
