thebearyouden

It really doesn’t - if someone is addicted to, say, heroin and publicly state it is bad, they wish it wasn’t widely available, that there was more done to stop it, that if you do it you’re going to become a “bad person” doing bad things to finance this.

Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie?

Well, no - it’s usually a heartfelt plea from a place of painfully hard-won experience trying to help someone else lest they too fall victim.

No different that the teenage “why can’t I smoke, both of you {mom,dad} smoke!” setup that is so common it’s a sit-com trope.

I’m not sure what qualifies as “short-lived” in your world, but I do know a man who befriended a bear for about a year before his passing.

A friend’s father living on a large estate in North Florida befriended a young black bear who would routinely eat out of his hand and relax on his screened in porch with him. He was lightly hit once on the hand requiring a few stitches, but it was an otherwise successful bond.

Appears it is possible for the average joe in the right neck of the woods.