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Living in the USA you're almost 5 times more likely to be murdered than if you lived in Australia. [1] It seems very logical to me to reduce your chances of mu
by grecy 9y ago
Living in the USA you're almost 5 times more likely to be murdered than if you lived in Australia. [1]
It seems very logical to me to reduce your chances of murder by 5x just by moving country.
USA: 4.88/100,00 population
Australia: 0.98/100,000 population
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
- GiorgioG 9y agoYour chances of being murdered in the US are not evenly distributed. I grew up in a ghetto (for example a young man was murdered across the street from my childhood home, with a blunt object when I was about 8.) I live in a suburb now and heart disease is more likely to kill me than a gun.
- grecy 9y agoOf course it isn't. And it's not in Australia either. So if you want to compare the best parts of the USA with the best parts of Australia, you'll still be ~5x more likely to be murdered. Why do Americans fail to grasp that we're talking about an average across entire countries, and as much as it's not accurate across the whole USA, it's also not accurate across the whole of other countries?