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Japan has a very high suicide rate despite near non-existence of guns.
by ctdonath 14y ago
Japan has a very high suicide rate despite near non-existence of guns.
- DigitalTurk 14y agoThe issue at stake here is the counterfactual ‘If guns were (not) available, would the suicide rate be different’. How does your (oddly specific) statistic address this question?
- ctdonath 14y agoThe suicidal find a way. Where guns are not available, in at least one major comparable example, the suicide rate is different by being higher (by a lot). Sure, guns make it easy...but there are many other easy ways.
- DigitalTurk 14y agoI don't think Japan and the USA are very comparable. In fact, I think insofar modern countries are concerned you'd be hard pressed to find two countries that are more different than Japan and the USA!
- hga 14y agoNo, no, not at all. We're both "high trust" societies. Compare to the Chinese stereotype/archetype of not trusting someone outside the family to run part of the business, which helped to kill Wang in the US and abroad outside of the PRC tends to limit firms to simple types like trading companies. I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough.
- DigitalTurk 14y ago> We're both "high trust" societies. Compare to the Chinese stereotype/archetype of not trusting someone outside the family to run part of the business, which helped to kill Wang in the US and abroad outside of the PRC tends to limit firms to simple types like trading companies. Sure, but I explicitly excluded non-modern countries. (I have lived in China.) > I agree, we are in many ways very different, many of them fundamental, but many fundamental are similar enough. Okay, but you're not controlling for any variables. Like you say, there are many differences even if there are similarities too.