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