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Old 10-22-2016, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by romanerin2011 View Post
I'll probably remain sober no problem for the next few years or so...
Probably? There is a gigantic disconnect here. Can you see this?

Originally Posted by romanerin2011 View Post
I keep creating horrific memories in order to jump start my sobriety, if that is in fact what I'm doing.
I think you may be overlooking something that could be very useful for you. You obviously have a sense of guilt, and morality, and you damn yourself and feel guilty about all of the bad things that you do after you drink, because they are reprehensible and immoral.

Do you do any of those terrible, immoral things when you don't drink, however? I would wager not. Probably, you are a rather decent person when you are sober, and your conscience is intact.

Here is the thing, though, which some people never consider. If drinking obliterates your moral conscience, and sets you loose upon society as if you had no conscience at all, doesn't that make drinking, in and of itself, the most immoral act of all?

In other words, is it right or wrong for you to drink, in the strictest moral sense?

If you can answer this definitively, it will make your task much easier.
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