Salmo g. +plenty
It's easy to lose one's humanity and intelligence when responding to a complex and emotionally charged issue like this; you kept yours.

The Pine Ridge Reservation is home to 20,000 Oglala Lakota Sioux. The unemployment rate on the reservation is eighty percent. Four out of five households are impacted by alcoholism. Murder, suicide, domestic violence, child abuse/neglect, thievery, accidental deaths, and impoverished living conditions are consequences of that alcoholism rate. Pine Ridge is a part of America; its residents are U.S. citizens living in a civic cesspool.

As you read through the posts on this topic:

Don't confuse facts, anecdotes, and opinions.

Don't confuse compassion with guilt.

Don't confuse diabetes with alcoholism. They are about as similar as golf and murderball. My father was diabetic. I took care of his medical needs. Think about the societal impacts of each "disease" before you make this comparison.

Here's some history on the Pine Ridge/White Clay problem:

http://battleforwhiteclay.org/?page_id=140

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