Originally Posted by
Bubovski I think that AA can help people who see their drinking a problem as well as the more serious extreme cases. Perhaps a bit of ambiguity gets in the way.
Is AA exclusively for the extreme non functional, unemployable, soon to be dead alcoholic or other people suffering lesser from alcohol as well?
In the Big Book AA seems to condone even heavy drinkers, so long as they hold down a job and looked after their family. They do say such drinkers may die a few years earlier ,in passing, but hardly a condemnation.
AA really need to clarify their support for the non problem drinker.
How are such people assessed relevant to any bad future behaviour based on drinking?
I spent a few years with AA and admire some of their work.
However dissenters to what seems deemed the entire core values seem frowned on by a good many.
The BB does say that new insights will become part of the program, beyond the1930s genre and it's a shame more members don't engage such forward thinking interaction.