We have heard the phrase "principles before personalities" so often that it is like a cliche. While we may disagree as individuals, the spiritual principle of anonymity makes us all equal as member of the group. No member is greater or lesser than any other member. The drive for personal gain in the areas of sex property and social position, which brought so much pain in the past, fall by the wayside if we adhere to the principles of anonymit. Anonymity is one off the basic elements of our recovery and it pervades our Traditions, and our Fellowship. It protects us from our own defects of character and renders personalities and their differences powerless. Anonymity in action makes it impossible for personalities to come before principle.