• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s 7 billion people in the world, there’s someone who believes anything. Statistically they’re irrelevant.

    I guess I should say, you haven’t met any number of these people beyond what can be rounded to 0% of the population.

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      6 months ago

      Tbf I haven’t ever met a holocaust denier myself, nor a flat earther, but I’m not going to say “those are just small numbers” or “those people don’t exist” if someone is talking about them.

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        6 months ago

        I would. It’s statistically true, although holocaust deniers are ticking up due to increased fascism globally.

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          6 months ago

          Well I guess that is where we differ.

          And yeah, that shit is lame, but they’re still statistically negligible though if that is your metric. I guess though that’s good, rather that than they be statistically dominant.

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            6 months ago

            Fair enough. I guess you’re not a liar per se, but don’t present it as an equivalence. “Some people believe the holocaust happened, some people don’t” when actually it’s 99.999% the former and 0.001% the latter.

            Sure, maybe there’s a few whackos who wanted to forcibly inject people but they’re a statistical irrelevance so don’t bring them up to support your point.

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              6 months ago

              Well, my point was that “(I think) those are the people he was talking about,” so they’re kinda the point lol.