April 1998
Autonomy Is Not an Excuse
Tradition Four - Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
The Fourth Tradition seems to me to be one of the least understood and most misinterpreted. During discussions of Tradition Four I've heard opinions expressed all the way from "Autonomous means we can do whatever we want" to "AA as a whole is affected by everything a group does--it's just a matter of degree." In my experience, the truth lies somewhere in between these two.
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