I don't have an angle, TheJungianThing, and I would appreciate it if you would stop questioning my motives.
This issue is that I see members of AA dismissing suggestions from other recovery programs as "tips and tricks" that only work for the "sane". The fact is that they work for people people who haven't reached Step 10 or who have no intention of working the Steps, and the above dismissal denigrates other recovery programs, because it implies that people who recover using them only recover because they were never as "bad" as those who recover using AA.