DIS-EASE, and the skeptic in the room
over 75% of the veteran Boston AAs who want to convince you that it is a disease will make you sit down and watch them write DISEASE on a piece of paper and then divide and hyphenate the word so that it becomes DIS–EASE, then will stare at you as if expecting you to undergo some kind of blinding epiphanic realization, when really (as G. Day points tirelessly out to his counselors) changing DISEASE to DIS–EASE reduces a definition and explanation down to a simple description of a feeling, and rather a whiny insipid one at that.
Context
The Program's doctrine and its resident skeptic held in one sentence: the veteran AAs' hyphen-trick that turns the disease into a feeling of dis-ease, and Geoffrey Day's tireless objection that the trick reduces an explanation to a whiny description. The litany's evenhandedness is the point — it reports the doctrine and its most articulate resistance without ruling, letting both stand as facts you acquire here.