Old 08-14-2017, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by dwtbd View Post
You changed the analogy to include not having been, presumably, addicted to raw chicken eating, which is the breakdown.
I would wager that the OP meant to equate alcohol to 'raw chicken' in the same way that some people equate alcohol to poison. Eating raw chicken would make one sick, and hence, is poisonous when ingested.

The problem is, and fini almost caught it, is that the Beast is not deterred by scarecrows such as 'poison' or the proverbial skull and crossbones on a bottle. The Beast was born of drink, lives to drink, an drinks to live. It doesn't even take into consideration that the alcohol may harm its host.

The Beast's progenitors are the survival drives that make us fit for life in the jungle, where it's eat or be eaten, kill or die. The Beast is a sociopath, and it will kill you to survive, unknowing that it too, will die as a result. In that regard, it is similar to a parasite that eventually kills its host in the attempt to live off its host.

I don't believe that 'raw chicken' was an analogy to alcohol, but rather, an analog to poison -- a scarecrow.
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