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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... penalties inflicted by people in authority; they ...   12&12 p.174, Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.

2.
... penalties of failing to do so.   12&12 p.74, Step Seven
We are obliged to choose between the pains of trying and the certain penalties of failing to do so.


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