Of course, the goal of that particular episode was more about attacking AA over its faith-based aspects ("aCTuaLLy, you don't need to submit to a higher power!") so it didn't matter if they threw alcoholics under the bus just as long as they could undermine religion

When I got sober in 2015 the first thing I learned was that the constant prompting of "anyone can quit anything with mere WILLPOWER" was not only completely wrong, but consistently caused more harm than good by making addicts internalize their worthlessness whenever they relapsed.

Defeating good monsters didn't give you any exp or gil, and if the most recent fight you'd won was against good monsters then townspeople would stop talking to you until you went back and beat some proper evildoers. Absolutely nothing else was changed; it was just another reason to run from fights.

Nintendo is scary good at making up aliens when they really want to, the Luminoth from MP2 are my faves

"I didn't make the rules!"

Are you familiar with this one?

I knew smokers who were convinced that management would cancel their breaks if they quit nicotine, which was kind of funny considering how many were also anti-unionization