Self-destructive behavior is any behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful towards the person who engages in the behavior.
Self-destructive behaviors are considered to be on a continuum, with one extreme end of the scale being suicide. Self-destructive actions may be deliberate, born of impulse, or developed as a habit. The term however tends to be applied toward self-destruction that either is fatal, or is potentially habit-forming or addictive and thus potentially fatal. It is also applied to the potential at a communal or global level for the entire human race to destroy itself through the technological choices made by society and their possible consequences.
Individual self-destructive behavior is often associated with neurodevelopmental or mental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality disorder or schizophrenia.
I asked Chat GPT this but could'nt get a satisfactory answer. I felt he was making it up as he went along.
In principle it should be possible to set up two lasers emitting the same frequency and synchronize them so they are perfectly out of phase so that both beams destructively interfere.
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