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> Crazy to think that hundreds of years of violence and extraction had nothing to do with this, and it's just due to cultural faults. It's extremely easy to se
by natalyarostova 7y ago
> Crazy to think that hundreds of years of violence and extraction had nothing to do with this, and it's just due to cultural faults.
It's extremely easy to see other groups of people who suffered the same thing, and have extremely low suicide rates. At which point you could create the same post-hoc explanation for the opposite outcome, about how hundreds of years of violence created very tough and mentally strong people.
- ianleeclark 7y ago> which point you could create the same post-hoc explanation for the opposite outcome, about how hundreds of years of violence created very tough and mentally strong people. This is pure ideology: we were actually helping them when we were chopping their children's hands off in the congo when they didn't produce enough.
- natalyarostova 7y agoI don't understand what you're saying. Who is saying anyone helped anyone else when children's hands were chopped off in the Congo?
- ianleeclark 7y agoI quoted you.
- natalyarostova 7y agoYou quoted me, then made a very insincere and uncharitable implication of what I said. I don't have any ideology, I was just pointing out how post-hoc explanations always fit the data. But that you could take other examples and come to opposite conclusions.
- ianleeclark 7y ago> I don't have any ideology Yes, you do. Regardless of if you want to or not, you have an ideology.