Which is good! Celebrate that victory all you like But don't turn around and try to argue that we used to be a generally non-drinking society and then Big Booze forcibly addicted us with the power of modern capitalism and advertising That makes no sense
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I also gotta say I don't love the attribution of a bad shift in society to AA and 12-step programs "turning drinking from a moral issue into a medical one" and thus made drinking more permissible Because that's just not true
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AA isn't a medical approach to alcoholism It's moral as fuck It was intentionally designed to be a Christian approach to drinking (confession, repentance, penance) only without the specifically religious language
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But it still is extremely religious The first three steps require you to admit you have no power over your own life and give yourself totally to a higher power and submit to said higher power utterly Come on
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AA absolutely does not treat addiction as a purely medical, non-moral problem Almost nobody does, it's a strawman, but AA especially doesn't If they treated alcoholism like cancer they wouldn't have you make a big list of people you owe amends to because your cancer hurt them
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I'm not saying they should treat alcoholism like cancer I'm saying this article is arguing against something that doesn't exist Being a "drunk" or an "alcoholic" absolutely is still socially stigmatized and AA absolutely is about stigmatizing and judging
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"But AA puts all the moral burden on the alcoholic for being a particularly bad kind of person rather than generally condemning everyone who buys or sells or consumes alcohol at all" Yeah cause they'd just tried that and it was one of the greatest disasters in history
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How do you just skip over that "Other than that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln"
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It's not like AA was some attempt by anti-Prohibitionists to dig Prohibition's grave It WAS a temperance movement, in strategic retreat, carrying on temperance by other means. This is also obvious if you've ever been to a meeting - it absolutely does view alcohol as "evil"
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I have been to hundreds of meetings, and no one has ever said that alcohol is evil, not once.
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I put "evil" in quotes because of course you're not supposed to use that word but do you really think that's not the dynamic
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I really think that that's not the dynamic, Arthur. Alcohol isn't evil. It's a chemical, it doesn't jump into my mouth.
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