The article is not an endorsement of AA or any of the addition industry groups yet don't understand the vitriolic comments to bring them down. You would think they were Al Qaeda or some terrorist organization that had to be rooted from the earth by the nasty unconscionable comments. These folks have helped tens of thousands of people who need and have asked for help. I know everyone is so much smarter on slashdot than the rest of the world which justifies their position on the grassy knoll to take easy shots at passerbys. If it saves even a few ten thousand lives, keeps some families together, gives an individual strength to stand up who are we to take the shot? Really? We gotta bring them down and simultaneously take no responsibility for the lives that are impacted because we know so much better? And anyway, isn't the point of the article that there is a suggestion, a possibility, that we are connected and care for each other might be important? "We, as social mammals, cannot regulate our central nervous systems by ourselves," Flores says. "We need other people to do that."" If somebody cares, we should stand out of their way because, placebo or not, it sometimes works.
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The article is not an endorsement of AA or any of the addition industry groups yet don't understand the vitriolic comments to bring them down. You would think they were Al Qaeda or some terrorist organization that had to be rooted from the earth by the nasty unconscionable comments. These folks have helped tens of thousands of people who need and have asked for help. I know everyone is so much smarter on slashdot than the rest of the world which justifies their position on the grassy knoll to take easy shots at passerbys. If it saves even a few ten thousand lives, keeps some families together, gives an individual strength to stand up who are we to take the shot? Really? We gotta bring them down and simultaneously take no responsibility for the lives that are impacted because we know so much better? And anyway, isn't the point of the article that there is a suggestion, a possibility, that we are connected and care for each other might be important? "We, as social mammals, cannot regulate our central nervous systems by ourselves," Flores says. "We need other people to do that."" If somebody cares, we should stand out of their way because, placebo or not, it sometimes works.