“Addiction is nondiscriminatory. It doesn’t care about your religion”
Being Jewish is not merely subscribing to a religion. We are, in the words of the kuzari, a different beriah, a different level of creation above “medaber.”
A jew doesn’t have the same problems or the same mentality as anyone else. Of course yidden can get addicted, but the way you’re describing it is, i hate to use the word again because it makes me sound “extreme,” close to apikorsus.
Of course, of course. That’s why taavah, gaavah, kinah, and kaas are all unheard of among Jews
and the heilige seforim tell us we don’t need to work on these at all. Jews don’t have any desire
for ma’acholim tovim or other luxuries, either; any advertisements seen in frum publications for
such things are only so that we can buy suitable gifts for non-Jews of our acquaintance.*
*Only under the cirumstances in which one is allowed to give a gift to a non-Jew, of course.