Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

[ThatRobGuy]

Is this what you did? What were your a priori reasoning for choosing those specific 12 countries? I just wanted to point out that the results are sensitive to what countries are included. Thus you need to explicitly argue for any inclusions/exlusions or test them all or test permutations of different 12 countries (if that number is important for you). If you do that I think you're going to realize that there obviously is other factors that impact homicide rates, and perhaps a more complex model is called for.

I didn't personally select the countries, I merely prompted Perplexity to include a combination of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. My goal was to get a somewhat balanced cross-section.

If I were going to specifically cherry pick in order to make a point, I would've chosen the US, and then tossed in Haiti, Honduras, and a bunch of African nations.

I would be surprised if someone said that they didn't want to reduce gang membership. Perhaps that is why it is not discussed as much as reducing access to guns?

I don't think anyone would say "I don't want to reduce gang membership".

However, there does seem to be a concerted effort to not discuss any other aspect than the guns. I believe it was either Mayor Jacob Frey or Jen Psaki who was on a news program recently discussing strategies for "Here's how we need to approach it if anyone tries to talk about anything other than the guns", I'll see if I can find the exact quote.

 

[Stopped_lurking]

I didn't personally select the countries, I merely prompted Perplexity to include a combination of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. My goal was to get a somewhat balanced cross-section.

If I were going to specifically cherry pick in order to make a point, I would've chosen the US, and then tossed in Haiti, Honduras, and a bunch of African nations.

I don't think anyone would say "I don't want to reduce gang membership".

However, there does seem to be a concerted effort to not discuss any other aspect than the guns. I believe it was either Mayor Jacob Frey or Jen Psaki who was on a news program recently discussing strategies for "Here's how we need to approach it if anyone tries to talk about anything other than the guns", I'll see if I can find the exact quote.

Don't do it for my sake, your first plot and statement about it rubbed me the wrong way. Either the data (in the plot) is different with what you later presented, or Perplexity AI can't do linear regression (if that was Perplexity too) or both. When it comes to trying to stop school shootings in the US, the only input I have is that firearms are tightly regulated in Sweden but everyone without recent criminal convictions can easily get a 2-4 rifles and a shotgun (on a hunting license) if they want to. The idea that you would need them for self-defense is wild to me.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

And Arendt on Eichmann: What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? | Aeon Ideas

'I was struck by the manifest shallowness in the doer which made it impossible to trace the uncontestable evil of his deeds to any deeper level of roots or motives. The deeds were monstrous, but the doer – at least the very effective one now on trial – was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous.'

For me the main takeaway is that it is very easy for any of us to do evil thinking we are doing good. And it happens frequently. We rationalize and compromise. We slowly extinguish our innate sense if justice, goodness, and what is right, if we ever had such a sense. Conscience, it takes formation, discernment and courage.

 

[Bradskii]

For me the main takeaway is that it is very easy for any of us to do evil thinking we are doing good.

No. We do evil when we can convince ourselves that what we are doing is right. Others are obviously complicit, often telling us things that we'd like to hear, whether they are true or not.

 

[Valletta]

No. We do evil when we can convince ourselves that what we are doing is right. Others are obviously complicit, often telling us things that we'd like to hear, whether they are true or not.

Perhaps convince ourselves that something is not so bad, that others can tell us it is OK and we embrace it. But that sense of what is good, what is God's will, is imprinted upon us and somewhere, even though it may be deeply buried in someone encompassed by evil, we know when we do wrong.

 

[Bradskii]

...we know when we do wrong.

It's when we cause unecessary harm.

 

[Landon Caeli]

No. We do evil when we can convince ourselves that what we are doing is right. Others are obviously complicit, often telling us things that we'd like to hear, whether they are true or not.

Why are you talking like a Christian?

The wrangling of morality, based on feelings and whims? How strange.

 

[Landon Caeli]

I think I know where the real roots of the Southern Cross come from... From European Christian culture. It's obvious.

...Those who don't even know they're christian, are Christian, at least culturally.

 

[Bradskii]

The wrangling of morality, based on feelings and whims? How strange.

That question is indeed strange. 'I don't like that, therefore it's immoral' is nonsensical.

 

[Landon Caeli]

That question is indeed strange. 'I don't like that, therefore it's immoral' is nonsensical.

Oh great... Now you've gone full blown fundamentalist.

 

[Bradskii]

Oh great... Now you've gone full blown fundamentalist.

Just the opposite.