pretty common logic error people make: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias …
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A very bleak statement when you replace X with any major world tragedy in history.
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@AstroKatie What is the alternative to fighting for survival? This sucks big time but having hope will help us overcome -
No one is saying to give up hope or not to fight. We need to acknowledge losses of past though, and how hard it will be.
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@AstroKatie I said same thing recently 'We survived WW2' is cold comfort to ~65 million people who didn't.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So, that doesn't actually make sense. "We" are the survivors. The thought is, they survived X, so can survive Y.
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Thank you for saying this out loud.
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Natives didn't survive. African Americans didn't survive. Gay men with HIV didn't survive. Soldiers didn't survive.
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@AstroKatie True. Also, what's at stake now is truly under the survival category.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We = the species, not any particular people alive now. Mind you, the madmen didn't have nukes, last time.
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