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Are you just that historically ignorant of how this goes? 3000 people also die a year from asprin. Everything in life is a trade off.

• sofixa 5y ago
  And people used to die of polio and measles, why do anything about it? And genocides happened, why prevent another one? As they say, "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths merely a statistic". Don't fall into this trap.
  • bitcurious 5y ago
    Famously attributed to a man who did his best to protect the populace from misinformation, leading to millions of… statistics.
    • sofixa 5y ago
      Nice try at twisting things, but no. Stalin didn't try to protect the populace from misinformation. He tried to stay in power whatever the cost, industrialise the country and make it more powerful ( economically and militarily) and united ( aka destroy ethnic groups). People died due to those things, his stubbornness and refusal to accept reality ( industrialisation impact, Germany), his paranoia ( Great Purges, among other things), and his genocidal tendencies (poles and others) , not because they were murdered for spreading misinformation about the NEP or whatever.