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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] Okay, so we know that "Holo addiction" is a thing, but...

We also know that material needs and wants are a thing of the past, so I don't NEED to have a job or anything.

What is to stop me from getting my own holodeck (after expending the minimum amount of effort required to obtain one, as the Picards have their own Vineyards and the Siskos have... something...), having all my food delivered to the entrance, and spending the rest of my life as a virtual Q, toying with the holo inhabitants at my whim?

Is the population monitored to prevent that kind of thing?  Would they have the legal right to break down the door and drag me out, kicking and screaming?
gpt
Nothing, really, though Holodecks require quite a bit of maintenance to keep them functioning so you really can't use them anywhere close to 24/7. Though no doubt any friend or loved ones you may have would start stopping by to express their concern, and fairly soon.
 
And their concern would be warranted. Like with any addiction, holo addicts find they need a stronger and stronger "fix" to keep themselves entertained. At first, one may stay amused through simple adventures or sexual fantasies. Very quickly, though, the lack of any danger and complete control over the virtual inhabitants lead to boredom and loneliness. In cases where holo addiction goes untreated, the ultimate result is the same self-destructive pattern found with any other addict. Whether it is engaging in increasingly perverse sexual fantasies, or neglecting one's health in devising more and more intricate simulations, or turning off the holodeck's safety protocols in order to provide a real sense of danger, the addict will eventually kill themselves in one way or another.

And let me tell you, it's usually a combination of those factors that does it, and the results are the most embarassing death one can imagine. In the decades before World War III, men would occasionally be found having accidentally killed themselves by attempting something called "auto erotic asphyxiation" (you can look it up). As humiliating a way to die as that is, holo addicts can be far worse. It's not uncommon in these cases to be found dead, having died by turning the safeties off, while engaged in sexual practices so deviant that *the safeties were relevant in the first place*.