I believe that by signing the paper before the meeting, you are denying that person the chance to have the seed of recovery from alcoholism planted. I know of very few people
when mandated to go to AA meeting as a requirement placed upon them, went with
the willingness of someone who went by their own free will, but I have seen those same people stay, and keep coming back, because of the knowledge of the disease that they were exposed to, even if they chose another program to help them recover, it might
save them from many more years of drinking to excess, and never knowing why.