if you use arguments of the form "the objective death risk from X is much lower than Y so stop paying as much attention",
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or swastikas drawn on walls. that sort of thing
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(at least, if you use such arguments as if they are conclusive in any sort of naive way)
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@VesselOfSpirit What about when those acts are correlated with future activity that kills people? (Psychopaths start with animal abuse, etc) -
@ContentOfMedia the point is that an act that kills N people might be correlated with more future murders than an act that kills 2*N people -
@ContentOfMedia just as an act that kills 0 people might be correlated with > 0 future murders -
@ContentOfMedia although i think such correlations are only one reason to think there is an asymmetry
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