Moral Responsibility
"Some strongly object to the A.A. position that alcoholism is
an illness. This concept, they feel, removes moral
responsibility from alcoholics. As any A.A. knows, this is far
from true. We do not use the concept of sickness to absolve
our members from responsibility. On the contrary, we use
the fact of fatal illness to clamp the heaviest kind of moral
obligation onto the sufferer, the obligation to use A.A.'s
Twelve Steps to get well.
"In the early days of his drinking, the alcoholic is often guilty
of irresponsibility. But once the time of compulsive drinking
has arrived, he can't very well be held fully accountable for
his conduct. He then has an obsession that condemns him to
drink, and a bodily sensitivity to alcohol that guarantees his
final madness and death.
"But when he is made aware of this condition, he is under
pressure to accept A.A.'s program of moral regeneration."
TALK, 1960
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Club_Epic
Before 6-17-85 I was a 21yr old working for Mobil oil as a Lab Tech making REAL good money. I was a party animal with a nice Z28 and a brand new Ninja motor cycle. Then my profile picture happened (the pic can be seen in my albums it is my Z28 broken in half) and changed my life in a few aspects... TBI - (Traumatic Brain Injury), LeftHemi - (Left-hemisphere paralysis) , L aka - (Left above knee amputation). and even after all that it still took me another 10 yrs to figure out that it was not the fact that "I didn't know the road" that caused my accident. But maybe the fact that I had been drinking, drugging and doing what was determined to be around 110 mph when I hit the tree. Ever sense that awakening things have gotten better then worse, then better then worse in my life. I see life as a heart monitor when it is going up and down you are alive, when it all levels out your not.
