You don't get repeatedly arrested for DUI/DWIs unless you have a problem with drugs. That's actually literally the definition of a drug problem---when your drug use is out of control enough that you are arrested for it on multiple occassions for the same exact offense, you very clearly have a drug problem and are not just being some "arrogant douchebag".
Honestly Habs, you're a smart dude but that was a flat out ridiculously dumb thing to say.
No offense, X, but I think you may have missed my point too.
I am in no way dismissing the reality that is drug addiction. And I think I have a fair understanding of it, thankfully not from any first hand experience.
Let me run a hypothetical by you. Let's say xfearbefore goes to a bar and gets loaded drunk every day for an entire month. He stumbles out of the bar in a stupor each day, but has the presence of mind to call a cab and go home, either of his own accord, or on the insistence of friends or family. Consequently, he gets no DWI/ DUI accusation, and no arrest.
Meanwhile, hatehabsforever goes to the same bar twice in that month, and gets equally loaded. However, on both occasions, he gets in his car and drives home, swerving and crashing all along the way. Habs gets pulled over and accused of a DUI offense.
Who has the substance abuse problem in this hypothetical? I would suggest that it would be xfearbefore, not hatehabsforever. However, HHF is the guy at the police station facing charges.
Now assume that hatehabsforever is a celebrity, a guy who has made a shit load of money over the years, is an Olympic champion, a guy who is often referred to as one of the best wrestlers in the world. Every where he goes, people make a big deal about him. He eventually begins to feel that he is above every one else, above the law, that the rules of law apply to the average joes, but not him. After all he's hatehabsfreakingforever. How dare you try to stop him from driving his vehicle, those sorts of rules apply to the rest of the world, not to him.
I don't think Kurt Angle, for example, has an uncontrollable drinking problem. He doesn't appear to be in any physical distress that would accompany an alcoholic. He functions quite well in society. I just don't think he wants to control his behavior. He doesn't feel he is answerable to the same set of standards that one of us would be answerable to. That's not an addiction. Those aren't personal demons. That's arrogance. That's stupidity. That's irresponsibility. How dare this police officers pull him over for drinking and driving. He's Kurt goddamn Angle. The world revolves around him, it always has, and it always should, at least in his eyes and mind.
I'm not suggesting for sure that these guys do not have addiction issues, maybe they do. But I think they are plagued first and foremost ny arrogance and a sense of entitlement more so than anything else. And that's dangerous, because one of these days, one of those fools will drink and drive and kill some innocent bystander. And even then, it won't be their fault. Damn pedestrian shouldn't have been standing there in the first place.
