Re:TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists
by bioemerl on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:16PM
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> Immune issues kill a LOT more people than knife attacks in the USA every year
When there are 100 million Americas with 100 million CIAs and all governments are ruled under a common government that makes all knife stabbings and war illegal, that maybe something that is the truth in geopolitics as well.
Until then, this isn't an analogy that works very well.
This analogy is great, because it's a better analogy than you think. Immune issues kill a LOT more people than knife attacks in the USA every year. In general, external enemies are less dangerous than internal enemies. It's easy to rally people against an external enemy (see the Robbers Cave Experiment in psychology), but much harder to rally people against an internal enemy.
There are 0.60 knife deaths per 100k people in the USA. [1] There are 3.97 deaths for SAID per 100k [2], and that's just the first type of autoimmune issue that I googled for off the top of my head.
Rome faced plenty of external enemies over the years, what actually caused the fall of Rome was internal.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-.... [2] https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/60/3/1321/5908...