Thanks for that post John: it is an amazing take on sobriety I haven't heard before, but I also have had thoughts in that direction.
I'm a drunk who didn't have consequences on the disastrous scale. I would trip in my rose bed and hurt myself, cut myself with knives cooking drunk, fall off my bike drunk, that sort of thing. I have a collection of physical injuries all related to alcohol, including a couple of broken toe bones. I didn't lose my marriage, house or car or job.
The way I drank was so insidious. I can really relate to the line in your post that MsCooterbrown quoted: how drinking affected your essential being.
And I can really relate to the morality issue because I too felt that drinking itself was a selfish act. Not all the stupid stuff I did once I was drunk....just the act of taking that drink. It was all for me and the impulse behind it was selfish to the core.