Nick Szabo  🔑

bcoz 84,000 >>>>>>> 49 so don't dilute the serious issue by generalising !

Interesting. Maybe in the aftermath of 9/11 we should have dismissed it and pivoted to focusing on heart disease research and hurricane readiness? If it’s death count and destruction of property that matters, let’s not waste time on trivial things

There's a huge distinction as to the quality and severity of threat between human intention and enemies and natural ones that goes way beyond current body count.

I agree wholeheartedly and that’s fundamental to the point I was trying to make above, which was rebutted with a “but what about body count” argument

The original tweet is making a body count argument, which is what I was poking at

Both of the body counts were about intentional attacks, it wasn't comparing oranges to orangutans like you were.

I would agree except that it was arguing the one is not as important as the other *because* of body count. Whereas I would say it’s all worrying because it is social in nature and the intention factor

Body count is important. Nobody AFAIK has denied that in this thread except, wrongly, you.