US/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger - Fears of war in West Africa - eviltoast
  • Klame@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My point is not that it’s not weird at all, it’s that in addition to quoting completely false numbers, you put forward a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. The numbers compared are not “weird” or “not weird”, they are absolutely not comparable.

    • birdcat@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Interesting, now I doubt that we just have super opposing political views, rather we have super different working brains 😅

      Hope you will answer to this one too!

      Let’s say you have a garden. I take fruits and vegetables from your garden and add them to the dishes of some of my family members, maybe only to garnish the dishes of my 6 favorite kids. Meanwhile, most of your family members don’t have any food at all. You start to complain, want me to stop taking fruits and vegetables for my well-fed family because the garden is yours, your family is hungry, it could somehow benefit from the garden and its fruits and vegetables. Then you hear this:

      you are comparing the proportion of fruits and vegetables coming from a location to the proportion of the population that benefits from a service that use the fruits and vegetables in question. you put forward a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. The numbers compared are absolutely not comparable.

      Would you stop or continue complaining?