Will Rogers used to say, "I've never met a man [person?] I didn't like." I wouldn't go that far but I will say this: If I were to look around for a really nice, sensitive and essentially good person, I think that a lot of the time I would be finding an alcoholic. Maybe a lot of them drink because they are that way and the world has hurt them somehow. AA tells us that they drink because they have "character defects". Whether their "defects" cause or are caused by their drinking is a complicated and controversial question (maybe the truth is somewhere on both sides). But some have many other good qualities. I've met some truly admirable folks in the rooms.
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