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Your argument is that murdering people is ok, as long as you're not killing more people this year than you did last year? I don't see why the base rate should m

• lelanthran 3y ago
  > Your argument is that murdering people is ok, as long as you're not killing more people this year than you did last year? No. The base rate is "The killing of non-activists". Have you ever actually done any sort of controlled study? Read any sort of clinical trial? "This medicine cured 10 people" is not acceptable as any indication of that medications efficacy. There's always "the non-medicated group had $X cures per person and the medicated group had $Y cures per person". IOW, the only time you see a statistic without a baseline is when the person handing you that statistic is trying to mislead you.