Disrespectful, inappropriate, and funny.
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Originally Posted by Jel
What he said. 'Choice', as we know it, doesn't come into it for an addict.
I still fucking laughed at the OP though  |
That's one definition of addiction - when one has lost the power of choice. Later they may be offered a choice to put in the extreme effort to recover or not at a time when they can see the truth about themselves. They may be born with the genetic variety of alcoholism, for example, and later, after finding that out, they have a choice of what to do about it.
Certainly many addicts aren't weak people. Think of all the extremely successful people who are / were addicts or alcoholics. Willpower is simply as useless against addiction as it is against a Colt .45. Until ...
Some addicts and alcoholics get to a point where even they can see that it is killing them, where the disease can no longer chili's them completely to the obvious truth. If at that point in time they are introduced to other addicts who have recovered, THEN they have a choice - follow the same difficult path to recovery, or not. Sometimes they are shown a path to recovery based on spiritual principles and for some the choice between spiritual life and alcoholic death is a difficult choice to make.
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