Friday, July 15, 2016

Other Diseases Catch our Concern, but with this one, We Turn them Out

   Name this disease: With most every other disease, everyone rallies around the patient, showering them with love, support and concern, But, with this disease, they are more likely to reject diseased person. In fact, it is common for families to turn members out of their homes when this disease overtakes them.
   Name it, if you can.
   Alcoholism.
   And, is it not so? Often, when the person becomes an alcoholic, the family grows concerned they are enabling the drinking by just letting the drunk live in the home, doing nothing but drinking. We should stop and consider, though. Those who are drunkards are disabled.
   Now, I do not say it is always wrong to turn them out, but I wonder. I do not know what incentives are good for them, and if it might be good for them to have the incentive of a good home when they are sober, but a gutter when they are not. I wonder, however, if they they are in condition, mentally, to be incentivized by such a challenge.

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