From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PUNISH occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... punish.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes
hurt those we
love because they
need to be "
taught a
lesson," when we
really
want to
punish.
2.
... punish nor
deprive any A.A. of membership, ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we
dare to say,
contrary to the
experience of
society
and
government everywhere, that we would neither
punish nor
deprive any
A.A. of
membership, that we
must never compel anyone to
pay anything,
believe anything, or
conform to anything?
3.
... punish or
expel offenders?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
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