Do you believe, Blue Inanna, that calling Alcoholics Anonymous a "cult" is not insulting to people who have followed the guides in Alcoholics Anonymous and that they are not offended by statements of that type? They would hardly be human if they were not.

I will always apologize to any group when I am writing on a thread that
has that kind of ignorance employed in its efforts to convince immature young people that all may drink "responsibly" as the alcohol manufacturers advertise.

Yes, I would suggest that I have extremist views about this subject.
And I don't apologize for those views. I have known people who have
been alcoholics and they have struggled unbelievably with their illness,
not to mention the exasperation of their not being able to integrate information causes to those exposed to it.

This isn't a type of venture in which it is "better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all". This one is dangerous. Extremist or
not, alcoholism is what it is for more people than I care to name. It's the
most difficult problem that the U. S. military deals with.

I'm not going to look up any more statistics or write any more about this.