Tribalism and Addiction, the Enabling Progressive, and Politically Correct Dominion:
[I dedicate this, too, to Hazmat, of the Pudding Folk, and David, of the Squishy Puffs, as well as anybody else who represents the Softness of the Times:] Perhaps you’ve known someone who was an addict. If you have, you know that it’s an awkward place to be the friend of one, and it presents you with a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, you can intervene, you can insist “sobriety is better”, as an absolute, for you would never wish for anyone to live with all the problems which accompany addiction, in addition to the problem of addiction in itself. If someone does not want to change, you *make* that person want to change, for you are well aware that he is not the only soul at stake, and, even if he had the right to throw his life away, he would *not* have the right to harm the lives of others who inevitably suffer on behalf of his affliction. Yet temptation tantalizes all. The righteous path is not without alternatives, and the alternative to intervention is enabling. If