BOTH are hard facts full of measurable features, factors, pain, reality.
It's hard to understand what you are calling mere 'philosophizing.'
Our comments arise--in part--out of working a year at an alcohol treatment facility in an internship--in part to hold intense groups with an AA co-leader. The facility was founded by the retired head who ran the Navy's alcohol treatment center--having founded that, if my housemate recalls correctly.
Certainly we have seen many hundreds of alcoholics in our lifetimes.
The part RAD plays in ALL addictions is well known. We don't understand your aversion to those facts.
To be clearer—the 100’s of alcoholics we’ve met &/or observed were out of the 5,000+ people we came across in our teaching, church attendance, counseling and other social contacts.
Working at a treatment facility gives zero idea of what it is like to be an alcoholic
It is one of the few things that I say if you aren’t one there is no possible way you can understand