“The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.” (Page 24)
If you go to a great restaurant with great food but get food poisoning, you don’t go back. If you go back every day for years, the reason you’re going back has nothing to do with how good the food and ambience is. Discourse in AA about what alcohol did for me is entirely beside the point. It is not why I drank.