RIGHT TO VICE

I have a colleague who indulges in a very serious health threatening vice, that's not the gist, the fact that he makes the vice seem like it's a right others must accord him is what gets to me. He says stuffs like "you know I must have my one hour of me time to indulge" and he expects it to be scheduled into his daily activities on a time that is not his, a time the employer has already paid for... He isn't the first person I've seen with this attitude, I've heard some folks talking about it being mandatory for everyone to have a vice and if perhaps you really don't have or would rather not divulge, they make it seem like a misnomer. I guess this quote we have come to accept is partly to be blamed "na something must kill man" so people now use their hands to look for "their poison" and what will kill them because apparently that way they have control. It's an extremely warped thinking process. Whatever happened to the natural instinct to survive and thrive? Or is it that people have just become too complacent and lazy to be themselves, I mean being an individual requires thought and awareness but just following the crowd, chanting, miming, mimicking, copying is way easier. Why else would you allow yourself to be browbeaten and bullied into doing things that are hazardous to your health,your faith, your beliefs just cause someone else who knows he's going down but doesn't want to go alone is trying to pull you down to his level, oh they know they're wrong but don't want to face the truth so they come up with attack as the best defense and all kinds of slogans and rights just to force it down your throat and they don't want to hear you don't like it because of course that will be termed a 'hate speech' which begs the question "if you have a right to be, do or like certain things, why shouldn't I also have the right not to like those things and you?" Or are rights meant for only you?