Todd Moody wrote: > > Tolerance implies non-adaptation. > > Why? Why isn't it correct to say that humans tolerate fish in > their diet because they have adapted to it? > > You can be not adapted to something and still be tolerating it, which is called > >"tolerant" or not adapted to something and not tolerating it, which is called > >"intolerant". There always is an immunological involvement. > I can only say that this is news to me, as far as these words > being so restricted in meaning in concerned. Perhaps this is > simply a technical meaning that I am unfamiliar with. The definition of "to tolerate" is : "to accept reluctantly, to endure... whitout showing signs of pathological reaction (in the medical sens)." What more can I say? Jacques