This back and forth reminds me of a statement made by Dorothy Kilgallen:

"If you don't smoke marijuana you don't know anybody who does; if you do, you don't know anybody who doesn't."

If you don't see the need for AA, then likely you will never be convinced it's necessary. Has to do with the heart I think.

Regarding sports: A player about a decade ago was given $42,000,000 to play basketball for either six or seven seasons. Nice work if ya can get it. I don't know his ethnicity--I do know that's a load of money to be paid to throw a ball through a hoop.