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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: Violence at AA meetings
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.015837.15510@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:58:37 GMT
- References: <1244.779.uupcb@factory.com> <1992Nov19.214649.15194@informix.com>
- Organization: Eastern Illinois University
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- In article <1992Nov19.214649.15194@informix.com> hartman@informix.com (Robert Hartman) writes:
- >In article <1244.779.uupcb@factory.com> bruce.baer@factory.com (Bruce Baer) writes:
- >>
- >>The prefered "method" of choice (at least here in N.Y., N.Y.) is to
- >>quickly have a few of the larger male members escourt the indavidual
- >>outside where they unceramniously kick the living shit out the person
- >>and then call an ambulance. [for referral to detox]
- >
- >Whew! This is either tough love taken to an extreme, or it's
- >insane. I don't know which. Rolling someone into recovery! Well,
- >I suppose it's better than leaving them to rot in the gutter.
-
- Not. Beating the hell out of someone and then having them taken to
- detox hardly constitutes bringing "someone into recovery". If I were the
- drunk victim of this assault, I'm quite sure I wouldn't go to any lengths
- to get what my assaulters had. I can think of no rational reason for
- treating a victim of alcoholism in this manner.
-
- >Live and let live I guess.
-
- Indeed.
-
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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