IF this was true then no one could ever break any addiction.
I will just say your arguments seem to the same arguments that limit the freedom of others for their own greater good. Apparently it is idealistic to see the world as survival of the fittest where the weak are consumed until they gain the strength to take power of their own.
You forget that times have changed to a materialistic society that relies on technology where before thought and ideology would have been a means of conveyance to entrap belief. The reach would have been about the same though not having lived in those times it hard to see from just the outset until you notice just how much influence your own waves of thought can have constantly over others and how such mental programming can spread without technology even but just personal contact.
Nonetheless I don’t see this going anywhere as we are both pretty solid and against each other on these points of view. We have both said our part and others can judge who has more merit to them as they wish.