Originally Posted by
NEOMARXIST 
My 'recovery' has stopped me from asking/pondering questions like this as they do nothing for my recovery.
Some wisdom I picked up from an AA meeting a few months back for the first time was "Live in the Solution...not in the problem"
Well said.
Don't let alcohol trick you back into drinking searching for answers to questions which cannot be answered. If you are an alcoholic, you can't drink. It is irrelevant what other people can do.