Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha View Post
I think you are getting the underlined sentence wrong.I can speak from personal experience as one of my parent´s is an alcoholic to the point that it has completely destroyed her life.
I'm sorry. I have a loved one who has experienced the same thing.

The situation you describe does hurt others. In ths case us being her family. So it is your interpration of my words that is wrong one, not my words.
But this is my question to you. So there is a point where a person engaging in destructive behavior can cause harm to others by greatly harming his/herself. So at what point do you draw the line and say that a certain amount of self destruction starts rippling towards other people? Is there a degree of self destruction that is ok? As far as I know, no one wants anything bad to happen to someone they care about whether it is big or small. So to me, it seems any amount of self destruction is hurtful towards other people who care for that individual. So the statement "as long as it doesn't hurt others" makes me want to take a step back and say, what exactly does this mean? Of course I was going to misinterpret your words, because I do not know what your words mean.