• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    Reported* suicide rate

    “Well akshually they just hide it, the real suicide rate is way higher and they lie to look good. I know this because as a rando on the internet I have access to ultimate truth, and am not just reflexively defending my own learned biases in the face of contrary evidence.”

    Unfalsifiable orthodoxy. If the numbers were switched, and the socialist countries had the higher suicide rates, none of these liberals would be talking about “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

    You’re not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first. Mostly looking at NK.

    Or they just pretend that every Designated Bad Country is mad max. No matter what the actual data is, liberals will tell themselves a story about how it’s actually evidence of the opposite. Believe science, until the science says they’re wrong: then the science is lies because everybody knows Communism Bad. It’s an unshakeable religious belief in the inferiority of other countries and systems. Blue MAGA indeed.

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      If you have evidence that it’s greater or lesser in any of these states, then please, share. Otherwise, this is just a non-falsifiable claim.

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        No I do not have good data. But neither does OP.

        • There is no international standard on what should be counted as suicide
        • Even if there was, reporting quality would be very different between cultures and rural vs urban environments
        • I think statistics coming fron authoritarian regimes are not trustworthy (I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to categorize which states are authoritarian)
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          This is more dodging the points raised than addressing them. You have proposed reasons for why the data may not be as accurate as possible, but that only prompts further investigation, not closing the book entirely. Further, all states are “authoritarian,” and no state wants to report a high suicide rate, so that isn’t a reasonable counter. Until the state withers away, it’s better for workers to have control of that authority.

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    Well yeah.

    You’re not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first. Mostly looking at NK.

    As for China, their population is so large that almost any bad stat looks small. Zoom in on someplace like Hong Kong, and the stats go right back to concerning.

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    19 days ago

    unpopular opinion: it should be a human right (once it’s determined you don’t have a mental illness severe enough to prevent you from seeing other obvious solutions to your suffering) and a society that keeps people alive by force is authoritarian in and of itself.

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    It’s funny when .ml actually encounters real people who downvote their bullshit