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Try approaching someone in denial about their alcoholism and talk about alcoholism they will act very similarly. These people need rehab.
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Try approaching someone in denial about their alcoholism and talk about alcoholism they will act very similarly. These people need rehab.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI think that's a reasonable analogy but I draw the opposite conclusion from it. If you divide the world into alcoholics who need rehab and normal people who don't, you end up with a lot of people who refuse to admit they have a drinking problem because they don't want to pay the social costs of doing so.
- catalogia 6y agoSomething many alcoholics and nearly all non-alcoholics have in common is they deny being alcoholics. P(Alcoholism|Denial of Alcoholism) = P(Denial of Alcoholism|Alcoholism) * P(Alcoholism) / P(Denial of Alcoholism) Pop in any reasonable numbers for those terms and it becomes readily apparent that denial of alcoholism does not constitute meaningful evidence of alcoholism.