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Originally Posted by raymor
Disrespectful, inappropriate, and funny.
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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Agreed.
Rationality is completely gone in the grip of addiction, so any 'choice' is completely irrational - therefore, 'choice' as we know it, simply doesn't come into it (at the time of addiction).
Or maybe all those mother's who can't give up their addiction even for the love of their children are just being greedy, and 'choose' to feed their addiction, even if it means losing their kids. Jesus, you couldn't make up some of the retarded shit that holier-than-thou cunts who have never been through an addiction spew
While I can be bothered - isn't it only 6 days sober for Whitney? I thought it was sat night/sun morning she died?