Originally Posted by
Tippingpoint 
I think you can eliminate the want. If you understand and accept that alcohol is poison why would you ever desire to drink it. That is the freedom I'm looking for.
By setting up the hypothesis that you CAN eliminate the "want to drink" from the equation, you continue to present your "argument" for debate with your AV/Beast.
It is only a matter of time before you lose, because The Beast
IS the "want to drink".
The desire for pleasure is a survival drive, and The Beast is a misdirected one, as TU so aptly put it. Certain factions of the population have tried to apply this to celibacy since the beginning of time, and just look how successful those attempts have been. You can't take an instinctual survival drive and extinguish it. The consequences come out one way or another eventually.
FT