What's Wrong With Personalities? Plenty!

ANONYMITY, as we observe it in AA, is at root a simple expression of humility. The Twelve Steps of AA are vital to individual sobriety, but the Steps, if not carefully encased in protective Traditions, would soon be open to all kinds of individual interpretations--some good, some perhaps divisive. The Twelve Traditions, hammered out the hard way from experience, maintain our essential unity and assure the continuation of the Fellowship. And all the Traditions rest on the idea of anonymity as our "spiritual foundation . . . ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."