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Both our political class and Indigenous communities have failed troubled Aboriginal young people in Northern Australia : Comments
By Brendan O'Reilly, published 4/4/2022The false claim that up to 100,000 were stolen has had the unfortunate effect of making today's authorities very reluctant to take measures in cases of neglected Indigenous children.
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In primaeval times, it could well have been a useful 'side effect', which 'thinned the ranks' to ensure that only the strong survived.
But in modern times, these side effects are seen as far too destructive, and are condemned?
Instead, we try, actively, to create an exponentially increasing happy population?
When, inevitably, we run out of room and resources, calamity will strike?
By some mechanism devised by nature, the ranks will be thinned in dramatic fashion.
Even with this as a future certainty, few of us, now, would readily countenance having a small child thrown in to the air in anger?
So we opt instead for the 'exponentially increasing' model.
Our forbearance will be the death of us: eventually?
Or are we willing to change our ideas, and accept that conflict can have many beneficial consequences?
But I doubt we will ignore the suffering of others.
Instinct says otherwise.