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Risks to life? This is quite exaggerated. Yes these weird things happen but its a statistical anomaly when you compare to population size.
by azinman2 3y ago
Risks to life? This is quite exaggerated. Yes these weird things happen but its a statistical anomaly when you compare to population size.
- sph 3y agoWe're not only talking about swatting. Add to that death due to firearms, drug epidemic, extraordinary rate of incarceration per capita. There are a lot of statistical coincidences and anomalies, at some point you gotta ask whether it's worth the risk. If I were living in sub-Saharian Africa, would it make sense to move to the US? Without a doubt. From the United Kingdom or the Netherlands? Ehhh, I don't know about that. These statistical differences would have a much bigger weight given all the other similarities. Most of the pull of the US is due to propaganda rather than actual increased standards of living. "The land of the free" and all.
- lukasm 3y agoA lot of my friends did not want to move USA, but security is a major concern. 3x more likely to die on road, 10x violent crime, 20x from overdose. Most people will encounter accidents, crime and other problems in their lives. It is not an anomaly.
- timeon 3y agoTalking about 'statistical' if you are in western Europe your life expectancy is better. [0] [0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-hmd-unwpp