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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by happytoexplain on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:21AM (#24321922)
I see this point of view a lot, and it's a little scary. Per-capita numbers are obviously highly valuable, but why is the raw number of people dead somehow meaningless?
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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by rich_sasha on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:12AM (#24322077)
Not meaningless, but otherwise you are mostly comparing the _sizes_ of countries. Is being a bigger country (with more deaths) more dramatic than being a smaller one?
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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by kyleee on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:39AM (#24321967)
Nobody said the raw number of deaths is meaningless.
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