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> Religious and political conflicts that cause people to overthrow their government are unrelated to why people rob and kill their neighbors. Religious and pol
by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Religious and political conflicts that cause people to overthrow their government are unrelated to why people rob and kill their neighbors.
Religious and political conflicts often literally start that way.
> Homicide rates are studied by the UN, which does a lot of work to produce numbers that can be compared across countries…
And they'll very openly tell you it's tough to do.
For example, https://data.unodc.org/datareport/hom-victim https://data.unodc.org/datareport/hom-victim.
Note, for example, that we have gender-based differentiation for US stats, but not for Bangladesh, which well illustrates my point. https://imgur.com/a/oc9yiuN https://imgur.com/a/oc9yiuN
Even in the US we have disappearances that never get resolved. Or cases where there were dozens of witnesses but no one saw anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy