Nick Szabo  🔑

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.

“The need for introspection, dialogue & reformation belongs not in the western world” That claim was supported by comparing body counts. I just don’t think that’s sound reasoning, even if it is practically useful information

When ethnically motivated violence pops up anywhere, I’m going to be on the side of “Let’s have some introspection and discussion” at the bear minimum

No you aren't, and neither is anybody. You know and I know about the barest miniscule fraction of the ethnically motivavated violence that has happened on this planet, even just in the last few months.

That seems like more of a bandwidth problem than a lack of concern for ethnic violence elsewhere. But also ethnic violence elsewhere is not typically a threat to the values I hold dear in my country, because those values never existed to begin with in most of these cases

I’m shocked to see it coming from people in Western countries, always, and deeply worried by the threat that represents