On the one hand, I feel sorry for those dying from this drug scourge. On the other hand, I feel we are culling from the herd the weakest of our population.
American Indians have had alcohol in quantity anywhere from 150 to 350 years. And they haven’t adapted to it yet, despite plenty of culling over the years.
Are they better off in the eastern reservations than the west, or is that more a matter of casino money, integration, and mixed ancestry?
There’s not much culling anymore either, we try to keep babies from being starved or murdered by their addled parents.
You put it a little more kindly than I do; I call it weeding out undesirables.