This was posted in another forum I frequent, and was curious on what you guys think.
This is what I said in the other forum:
In my opinion, alcoholism is something you start yourself, you do not choose to get Cancer, or Lupus, why would alcoholism be considered in the same category with those?
Sure, being an alcoholic is hard to cure, but didn't the person start the problem themselves? The same can not be said for a person with a degenerative bone disease, or Alzheimer's.
Alcoholism does not manifest itself, and medically speaking, can not be caught from another person. Peer pressure, while a bitch, does not cause a person to become addicted to alcohol.
This is what I said in the other forum:
In my opinion, alcoholism is something you start yourself, you do not choose to get Cancer, or Lupus, why would alcoholism be considered in the same category with those?
Sure, being an alcoholic is hard to cure, but didn't the person start the problem themselves? The same can not be said for a person with a degenerative bone disease, or Alzheimer's.
Alcoholism does not manifest itself, and medically speaking, can not be caught from another person. Peer pressure, while a bitch, does not cause a person to become addicted to alcohol.
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