“I can stop any time…”: the catchphrase of addicts everywhere. Trying to rationalize alcoholism is a bit like trying to explain away a nasty jaywalking habit. Addiction hurts people; broken lives or broken bones, we (alcoholics & jaywalkers) eventually have to come to our senses.
Our behavior is as absurd and incomprehensible with respect to the first drink as that of an individual with a passion, say, for jay-walking. – Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 37.
