Originally Posted by
AlericB 
Well, that's a good point. Although we now know that we drink purely for pleasure, without that knowledge there is no intention to indulge in hedonism and so is there anything immoral in the behaviour? If we returned to drinking with what we know now of course there would be clear intention and so we would not deserve praise for any subsequent quitting.
Verb tense problem in red.
I knew every single time that drinking some more was ALWAYS a challenge to stay out of trouble. For me it was ALWAYS an awareness that I was about to regain that wonderful deep pleasure, and it was worth whatever bad things I did, (up until that last bad drunk).
I do not understand how just learning about AVRT suddenly conceives an immaculate innocence from ingrained past intentions that led into reprehensible drunken behavior.