I am not saying it is or isn't a disease. What I am saying is that when someone chooses to drink excessive amounts of beer, they are making a choice. Now that over-consumption may lead to a disease, but the blame for it can only be layed on the individual.
Now whatever causes an individual to drink an excessive amount of beer/wine/liquor for an extended amount of time, wether it be stress, mental illness or whatever. They have a choice to seek help at any time, some do and some don't. But the fact remains that it was a choice of the individual to drink themselves into a serious medical condition.
AA does strip this personal responsibility from the individual in the first step of the program. By making people admit that "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol" it is not only insulting to the individual, but it also absolves them of any of the bad choices they made in not only the over consumption but also any of their actions while under the influence alcohol. Not to mention the fact that all AA really does it move the dependency from alcohol to the AA meetings, and does nothing ot treat the inderlying cause of what led them to excessivee drinking in the first place.
But if you look on their own website the name is a not so subtle warning about over consumption.
Which translates to "roughly";
My point being is that we coddle people that make bad choices, we help them lay the blame elsewhere. by helping them make excuses for their poor decision making skills, we are not encouraging them to learn from their mistakes.
One way to do that is to mock those that act like idiots and do stupid things. So although I really don't think they are doing so in this case, if they were it wouldn't be such a bad thing. It might just stop some people from doing stupid things that harm themselves.