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Re:How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger by comicjk on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:06AM (#19399777)
Your premise is mistaken. Sri Lanka's murder rate is lower than that in the US, but that doesn't make it low by international standards. I doubt that Buddhism has much to do with it. For example, both Israel and Jordan have much lower murder rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

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Re:How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger by GVIrish on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:36AM (#19400640)
Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.
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Re:How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger by comicjk on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:49AM (#19400760)
The premise is that Sri Lanka has unusually low crime and unusually high suicide, and the following argument is trying to explain that. But judged by murder rate (the most consistent crime stat), Sri Lanka doesn't have unusually low crime.
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