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I don’t think either of your premises are true, but it’s my fault for using the word “sin.” Alcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides. There’
by dionidium 5y ago
I don’t think either of your premises are true, but it’s my fault for using the word “sin.” Alcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides. There’s no culture where that behavior is tolerated and prohibition of murder isn’t a religious concept.
That’s all I meant by “sin.” I only used the religious term because I was speaking from the viewpoint of the religious of the time. Didn’t mean anything by it other than ordinary misbehavior.
- nitrogen 5y agoAlcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides. Perhaps, but P(A|B) is drastically different from P(B|A). In other words, what percentage of consumed drinks of alcohol are associated with a homicide? Beyond that, could alcohol use be prevalent enough that alcohol could be implicated in 50% of everything? It's sort of like how "excessive speed" is a factor in most car accidents, but that's because posted speed limits are too low and everybody speeds at least sometimes.