"Why all this insistence that AA's must hit bottom first?"... 12X12

Because the average rationalizing, self-centred alcoholic will do VERY
LITTLE to practice the AA principles unless he/she has hit bottom first.. If
anyone wants to poke fun at someone else poking fun at the irrational
thinking processes of the practicing alcoholic, I say three words..Jails,
Institutions, Death. That's where we end up.

Here we got a guy who can't/won't get his ass to a meeting because of his
"nerves". This same guy said he almost got "caught" drinking and driving. As
if his biggest problem would have been getting "caught'
selfish/sel-centred attitude.

I have had the wonderful experience of visiting a friend, a practicing
alcoholic. I him dead on his toilet, with a beer on the bathroom counter,
half finished. He had been dead for a week or so, and had shit his
underpants when he died.

I do not pull punches to coddle those who are spouting stupidity..