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sfkdjf9j3j on March 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alcoholics Anonymous vs. other approaches: the evi...

Modern medicine treats alcohol abuse and addiction as similar to other chemical dependencies.

I don't know what to tell you. Your callous dismissal of the seriousness of alcohol dependency is an ideological position, not one based on reason or science.

snurfer on March 11, 2020 [flagged] [3 more]

Excuse me, but I offer a rational alternative to the religion of Alcoholics Anonymous. Would you say AA is the bastion of reason and science?

jerf on March 11, 2020 | | [–]

No, you didn't. First you insulted, then you corrected someone, now you're trying to raise a flamewar smokescreen. Please just stop.

dang on March 11, 2020 | | [–]

Please stop doing flamewar on Hacker News.

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