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Report of Victoria's Royal Commission on Family Violence hardly surprises : Comments
By Brendan O'Reilly, published 8/4/2016When a lefty Labor government commissions a report into a 'women's issue' like domestic violence, we have come to expect a regurgitation of the entrenched views of its feminist wing.
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I don't think that anyone, certainly not me, is suggesting that all domestic or other violent assaults are the result of drinking alcohol. Teetotallers are just as capable of violence as drinkers are. So are users of other drugs (alcohol is a drug). Use of any drug, including alcohol, causes permanent changes to the brain. Drinkers, in particular,are either unaware of this, or don't want to know. Therefore, an assailant who has a zero alcohol reading, may still do something he or she would not have done if they were not drinkers. Of course, their actions, as you suggest, might also be the product of innate personality problems, in which case, they should abstain from all drugs and stimulants.