Addiction is no excuse for avoiding responsibility
One response to the previous set of posts on a libertarian-themed e-groups list was, "Attributing misbehavior to alcoholism or other addictions provides people with an easy way to evade personal responsibility."
Not if you redefine alcoholism.
Alcoholism is commonly believed to be a choice, because it is defined as a loss of control over use. The question I asked as I began my research was, what does it look like before there is such a loss of control--in most cases, decades earlier?
Alcoholism is, as I have redefined it, a genetic disorder that causes the afflicted person to biochemically process the drug alcohol in such a way as to cause that person to act destructively, some of the time.
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