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Originally Posted by RaisingKay
First of all, my post was directed to Emily Fox, not you. You have taken my post personally. But since you have addressed me, I will direct this to you. I suspect, of course I could be wrong, that you have been around alcoholics but do not really "know" them. The word "simply" and alcoholic do not go together. There is nothing simple about it. An alcoholic, and I'm going to extend this comment to functioning alcoholics as well, has no concept of common sense. That is not even a choice. If you knew an alcoholic, as you say you do, you would know that.
I'm not telling you who to have empathy for but don't tell me either.
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I know but I felt like I had to speak up since I left a reply agreeing with her and I felt obligated to defend her because she has supported me in multiple threads.
I find it rather amusing though that you are saying that alcoholics lack common sense on a thread on a support forum which any alcoholic could click on and read which directly contradicts your claim about the OP being in the wrong because you are doing the same thing more or less.
We all make our choices in life and our choices often have consequences behind them. If somebody does something foolish and endangers innocent people in the process, I have absolutely zero empathy for them once karma comes back to bite them in the butt.
I sympathize with alcoholics. I neither sympathize nor empathize with drunk drivers.