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I live in "one of the European capitals". It is super safe here, but there are still stabbings. The crime-rate is also enormously variable between European citi
by lucideer 4y ago
I live in "one of the European capitals". It is super safe here, but there are still stabbings. The crime-rate is also enormously variable between European cities.
> No more.
Changing your habits based on a single event isn't particularly rational. If this were a comparative articles on SF crime-rates you might have a good point, but it isn't.
And I say this having had a shooting happen on the street outside my hotel room the last time I stayed in SF - one event isn't a pattern (though in fairness if you look at comparative firearm incidents between US & European cities you're a bit more likely to see obvious disparities).
- User23 4y ago> Changing your habits based on a single event isn't particularly rational. You only have to be wrong about getting murdered once.
- coldtea 4y ago>Changing your habits based on a single event isn't particularly rational. It's doesn't need to be "a single event" that happened to the parent. Many individual observations, talks with residents, learning what they consider "normal" and "acceptable" baseline are also very possible to scare someone used in a safer city off for life. Then there are also the actual stats.
- lucideer 4y agoI was just addressing that their comment seemed to be reacting to "a single event", rather than to review of actual stats (which is, by contrast, a good & rational approach).
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago> Changing your habits based on a single event isn't particularly rational. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime#description https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime#des... But changing your habits while in a city in the top 2% for crime might be.
- nonethewiser 4y agoWell every murder is “just” 1 event.
- seydor 4y ago> Changing your habits based on a single event isn't particularly rational. I would say it is quite prudent and rational, because you cannot be killed more than once
- lucideer 4y agoYou could trip on a curb outside your home, hit your head on the ground, and die. But you leave your home based on a rational assessment that that series of events is reasonably unlikely. Avoiding doing anything because it might kill you is always a function of the likelihood of that outcome - if you're assuming the likelihood is high, based on a sample size of 1, then no, that is neither prudent nor rational.