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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by titzer on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:06AM (#15148015)
> Meanwhile 1.3 million people die in road crashes

You're comparing a global number to...something else.

In the US (~33,000 deaths annually by firearm, including suicide, ~32,000 traffic fatalities).

What was your point again?

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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by fundabulousrIII on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:28PM (#15150553)
You'd rather the suicides use more primitive implements? If you are done with things a gun is pretty painless and nearly certain. Everything else should have warning labels.
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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by grzm on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:32PM (#15150595)
As the guidelines request,

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is particularly important on sensitive topics, such as this one. The goal of HN is not combative arguments, but rather constructive, substantive discussion.

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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by fundabulousrIII on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:40PM (#15150668)
Get a life. Oh, excuse me, was my sarcasm too transparent?
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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by sctb on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:35PM (#15151243)
Could you please carefully read the guidelines and stop commenting like this? This is not up to the standards of discourse of this site.
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