Noddy wrote:
>
> "jackbadger56" <castle56@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:384103bb-6247-4509-a470-
>
> > Step sister calls my step dad every week in tears. She's up in the NT
> > as part of the intervention. She's getting paid quite well and I doubt
> > saving the world was her first priority. She's emotionally tough (or
> > was) yet what she is seeing is breaking her.
>
> What goes on in such places is appalling, but 99% of it is their *own*
> doing. If I hadn't seen it myself with my own eyes I wouldn't have
beleived
> it, and I implore *anyone* who thinks Abbo's are hard done by to take a
trip
> and get the real story.
That's the big thing not talked about. We've got an astronomically high
indigenous population in prisons, and a significant amount of it is due
to crimes against their own people.
> > Unfortunately, *every* *single* *incident* regarding abuse she's had
to
> > deal with in the last
> > 4 months has been brought on by alcohol. Biologically, Aboriginals'
> > bodies haven't had the 1000's of years to get used to alcohol, they've
> > had 200.
>
> I don't buy that :)
>
> No one is born with a genetic tollerance to alcohol, and the "white
man's"
> ability to deal with the stuff (such as it is) has not been an
evolutionary
> process.
There are some indigenous people (and this is true for certain native
american tribes, eskimos and aborigines that I know of) that produce far
less of an enzyme compared to most europeans that helps metabolise
alcohol. That means that the same amount of grog can **** them worse,
from the get go. I'll readily accept that, but the fact of the matter
is, if I had a problem with the grog, it wouldn't matter what the enzyme
levels were, it's a case of either I'd _decide_ to drink or not to
drink. For the record, in any event, I don't have such an enzyme issue,
but I don't drink anyway. I'm hardly a poster child/success story, but
I'm not hurting anybody else.
--
John McKenzie
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