• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    Furthermore, people compulsively fight and kill anyone who isn’t exactly like them

    Citation needed. How is there any diversity at all in the world? Not everyone is exactly the same.

    The only people who don’t think any person is representative of the whole of humanity are white supremacists.

    A sample size of one or a few is never totally representative of billions. Do you think everyone in the world is exactly like Greta Thunberg? People have a huge variety of values and personalities, you can’t boil everyone down to a charcuterie of the particular people you grew up with.

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      Citation needed.

      Uh, every fucking genocide? Read a history book.

      A sample size of one or a few is never totally representative of billions

      My sample size is in the thousands - more than that if you include everyone who has participated in a genocide. Even more if you include every bigot.

      People have a huge variety of values and personalities

      And none of them mean jack shit. You’re bringing up meaningless drivel to support your weak-ass argument.

      you can’t boil everyone down to a charcuterie of the particular people you grew up with.

      The problem - confirmed by my therapists - is that there were exactly zero samples of anyone contrasting.

      A society capable of keeping such people away at all can do so indefinitely. So it doesn’t matter if they ever existed or not - people will keep them away from me forever, simply because they could not live with themselves if they fail.

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        Uh, every fucking genocide? Read a history book.

        You’re taking about all of humanity, not just people who have committed genocide. Not everyone on earth has committed genocide.

        My sample size is in the thousands - more than that if you include everyone who has participated in a genocide. Even more if you include every bigot.

        Are you only including bad people in your sample? Obviously that would end up skewing the sample towards people being bad. Have you heard of the term representative sample in statistics? That’s how I’m using it.

        The problem - confirmed by my therapists - is that there were exactly zero samples of anyone contrasting.

        I’m sorry you haven’t met any non terrible people. I’ve met plenty. I hope you can meet some more people to change that.

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          Not everyone on earth has committed genocide.

          But anyone at least supports genocide, at least theoretically.

          Are you only including bad people in your sample?

          Not intentionally, but the whole point is that 1) a random sampling obtains no “good” people 2) a thorough search also fails to turn up these mythical “good” people.

          I hope you can meet some more people to change that.

          The people I’m surrounded by would never allow that. They are willing to commit genocide to make sure the people they control stay in control.