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Topic	Are mass shootings "part and parcel" of living in modern day America?
Frolex 05/19/18 8:30:45 AM #37:	Kazi1212 posted... I dont know about the school shooters, but many other mass shooters were also guilty of domestic violence, and people who commit domestic violence generally were also brought up in abusive households: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2017/1/10/14213164/mass-shooters-gun-violence-domestic-violence That data doesn't substantiate the claim that mass shooters come from abusive homes. Kazi1212 posted... I mean sure, intuitions can be wrong, I dont know about totally irrelevant however. if our intuitions were totally off from reality on a consistent basis, I doubt our intuition would be as critical to living our daily lives. In the absense of evidence, intuition is better than nothing. Lol, no, that's not at all the case. It's much better in terms of decision making to admit you don't know the answer to a question than to form an arbitrary conclusion based on your subjective beliefs, since you're forced into acting based on what information you do know to be true. Intuition with no form of evidence is objectively worse than nothing. --- https://imgur.com/HOLHd4k https://imgur.com/six2WTN <cite>Frolex posted [p:901618810] in Are mass s... [t:76623319]...</cite> <quote><cite>Kazi1212 posted...</cite> <quote> I dont know about the school shooters, but many other mass shooters were also guilty of domestic violence, and people who commit domestic violence generally were also brought up in abusive households: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/identities/2017/1/10/14213164/mass-shooters-gun-violence-domestic-violence</quote> That data doesn't substantiate the claim that mass shooters come from abusive homes. <cite>Kazi1212 posted...</cite> <quote>I mean sure, intuitions can be wrong, I dont know about totally irrelevant however. if our intuitions were totally off from reality on a consistent basis, I doubt our intuition would be as critical to living our daily lives. In the absense of evidence, intuition is better than nothing.</quote> Lol, no, that's not at all the case. It's much better in terms of decision making to admit you don't know the answer to a question than to form an arbitrary conclusion based on your subjective beliefs, since you're forced into acting based on what information you do know to be true. Intuition with no form of evidence is objectively worse than nothing. --- https://imgur.com/HOLHd4k https://imgur.com/six2WTN</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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