They use other clients who committed the same offense as examples.
"She didn't get the same consequences as me!"
"He did the same thing I did, but nothing happened."
"The manager's picking on me!"
They sound like a bunch of uptight high-priced lawyers appealing a case.
The thing about us being unfair is likely true. Because that's the way life is.
When dealing with 650 clients in many locations it's difficult to be "fair" in every situation.
But isn't that the nature of life? Not just at TLC. Also in the larger world.
We can look around and find unfairness everywhere. Visit the children's hospital in Phoenix. What's fair about a child with cancer?
Follow the news. What's fair about children dying in war zones? Or serving as human shields? Civilians in Africa contracting Ebola because they were born in the wrong place? Being beheaded for not believing in someone's version of god?
Unfairness is rampant.
Yes, we addicts know how to feel better about unfairness. Snort a line. Light a pipe. Open a fifth. Nod out for a while. That unfairness will melt right away.
Or we can look in the mirror and tell ourselves that life is perfect just as God made it. And fair or not – we simply accept it and move on.
