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0 pointspvnick10y ago0 comments

> The vast majority of people have never and will never murder.

Like I said, modern society has instilled feelings of guilt and negative consequences with our comparatively well-developed ethical and justice systems, generally leading to situations where the risk of getting caught murdering someone outweighs the benefits of killing them (go to jail, hell, etc). But flip the risk analysis (eg, what this article is about), et voilà, no problem.

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clarkmoody10y ago· 1 in thread

> modern society

Did I restrict my statement in some way when I said "vast majority"?

I know citing Wikipedia is lazy, but it mentions high murder rates of 35 in 100,000 during medieval times. I know there are other forms of homicide, but I haven't spent the time to find stats. Assuming on average one murderer per victim, %0.00035 is vansishingly small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter

kiiski10y ago

In this context, medieval times are "modern society". They already had social, religious and legal norms against killing. Also, most people lived in the countryside or small villages where they didn't have many chances for killing people anyway, so the murder rate in larger towns must be a lot higher than the overall 35 figure.

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