Moral decisions 04/14/23
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Short post. I  enjoyed a brief midnight pub  posting from mayonoki[1].
They spoke about being sober for  about 2 years (congrats!). Then they
said, "Note: This isn't a statement  for how other people should live.
My sobriety is not a moral decision, purely one of survival."

Well, that got my  goat a little, so I thought  I might express myself
here.

I'm sober too, in the drugs/alcohol sense, but addictions of all kinds
certainly  plague me  as they  do many  in the  modern world.  Perhaps
someday  I'll  be  purely  sober  in every  sense,  wouldn't  that  be
something? Maybe it'd be frightful, I don't know.

The thing is,  my sobriety *is* a  moral decision as well  as a health
one. And I'm not worried about that.  I mean, why not? Heck, I'll even
go so far as to say that I believe everyone should make the same moral
decision. Not that it should be *forced* on them--I don't believe that
at all--but they should make the choice.

Someone in gopherspace just recently posted  a link to an article that
noted that,  "even moderate  drinking isn't good  for your  health". I
don't recall who linked it, nor do I have the link. I think Google has
it.  But you  know, there  will always  be some  new study  saying one
thing, and another  saying the exact opposite. The  choice will always
be yours.

Mayonoki didn't spell  out their entire belief system  or anything, so
this isn't a judgment on them. It's just a little jab to say:  It's OK
to have morals. It's OK to  make moral decisions. We shouldn't have to
excuse our actions and make sure that others know they're not based on
morals (though, it's  fine to do that,  if you really want  to be sure
people know you're not doing it that way!) We should all find a way to
get along even when we're wildly different. Maybe we already do.

[1] gopher://midnight.pub:70/0/posts/1353