Reply #43: while i think the rule unfair "many" users don't recover, unless you consider 10 percent "many" [View All]

the reality of addiction is that it is a disease of the brain, and the overwhelming majority do not recover

i think this rule unfair because the 5 or 10 percent who overcome the overwhelming odds to recover and stop using should not be barred from working for life, but arguments that "many" recover are not convincing, we need to make genuine arguments in the interest of fairness and justice

if we make silly arguments, we just convince the folks that we are delusional

everyone who has any knowledge of addiction knows that it's a tiny number of those affected who recover, however, even a tiny minority deserves equal rights and justice

the argument that equal rights and justice are only important if "many" are affected is a bad argument anyway for a number of reasons

no serious organization that deals with addiction/alcoholism agrees that "many" recover, AA itself points out that this is a disease for life, with the resulting need to fight it for life -- there aren't really that many businesses that knowingly hire folks who have a lifelong disease requiring medical help -- they may not be open about the fact that they discriminate like this, but c'mon, if you have a marijuana conviction or failed test in your record, there are not many jobs open to you, they just may lie about the reason -- an arrest for drinking/DUI also ends your ability to work and has for quite awhile -- people need to wake up about reality, instead of kidding themselves that this is one time that happened to one guy who smoked weed 7 yrs ago -- this company made the mistake of being honest abt why they didn't hire him, they should have just said the job was already taken and they wouldn't be getting sued