• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Which statement did I make that was wild? Because none of that contradicts anything I said.

    I never made the claim that all or even most murders get solved.

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      16 hours ago

      Regular old people get murdered all the time. Sometimes in targeted assassinations. The killers get caught all the time.

      This you?

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        16 hours ago

        “All the time” and “every time” are not even close to the same thing.

        So again, your link doesn’t contradict what I said.

        There are constant murder trials. Do you deny that fact?

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          15 hours ago

          You’re correct and I think your original statement was pretty fair - but “All the time” and other soft indications like that - serve poorly when we’re discussing something as serious as murder. Most murders go unsolved and while a very significant number of murders are resolved if you happen to be talking to someone who has intimate knowledge of a family member or friend being murdered “all the time” is likely to come across as cavalier.

          Our language gets weird around strongly emotional events (you’ll get a similar response if, at a friends’ wedding you comment “You know, most marriages end in divorce” even if it’s objectively the truth).

          So written by a person with a little bit of ASD and has similarly put their foot in their mouth in the past.