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Uummm... because I was answering someone else's post covering other issues. Well the US has three times the rape rate as Germany (which commonly doesn't involve gun use) thus seems to be an inherently more violent society on average, separate from gun culture. In addition, since guns, being by definition highly lethal, has the tendancy to turn assaults into murders, the murder rate of the US being only 5 times that of Germany, seems low considering that the US has 3 times the gun ownership per 100 citizens.

I agree, though I'm not aware of anyone who disagrees. Anything else, perhaps of interest? So you find a direct result comparison between countries of very different populations, social structures, crime rates and gun ownership stats compelling? Okay.

So your observation is the number of US school shooting deaths is similar to the total firearm deaths in Germany? What does this statistical juxtaposition mean to you?

Thanks for that, Captain Obvious. If it isn't inherently obvious that individuals who do a search for "how to replace a dislocated shoulder" are not a random distribution of folks on YouTube, I can't help you.

The cohort seeking out such a video will not be a cross section of the General Public.

There are plenty of mammalian species where only one male per herd will pass on it's genetic material. Therefore having the remainder of the males (the majority of total males) having something to occupy their time, would contribute to herd cohesion.

That was the intent of the producer, but anyone can watch and learn.

Exactly. I was referring to this example, which, BTW most are not suited to or find unpalatable.

Nope, it was produced by an ER doc for use by other ER docs.

Nope, not always a weakness. Hate is an efficient motivator when taking on a task that one is not suited to or is not palatable.

Huh? The highest number of school shootings and deaths from same was 2022 with 100 shootings leading to 40 deaths. The "total annual firearm-related deaths" is 43,000.

Very true. Everyone disagrees with people and concepts, the act of taking disagreement to the level of contempt, however is toxic to the individual who makes that choice and secondarily to those around him. A lose/lose situation. The only scenario whereby contempt is beneficial is to psych oneself into a hyper frenzy state, you cited sports (which is a reasonable example) or a fighting situation, say a fistfight or a military scenario.

So did you give anesthesia to do the exam (and would it be available for any repair)? Sounds like these are abdominal wounds. With the peritoneum intact, I'd lean towards closing the fascia with interrupted sutures, but I agree with keeping the skin open for now. I'd try for delayed primary closure over closure by secondary intention. Good luck.

I don't disagree with your commentary, but I was addressing prioritizing getting the native to want to speak to you (which is when higher quality conversations occur).

If you're interested in maximizing your chance of having a helpful conversation (which, after all is the central point of learning a language), then learning to ask in the person's native tongue will accomplish this. Asking in English will not.

I have Death Stranding on my wishlist, since I'm so behind in games I generally wait for them to be under $10, or maybe $19 if it's an AAA title

Not a crystal, not candida. I'm voting piece of hair as it clearly has a shaft center.

Hey don't dis YouTube, I "learned" how to replce a dislocated shoulder from YouTube.

Well, by that measure factory farming itself is also of "relatively recent occurence".

In my experience most thoughtful individuals find factory farming unethical, though it obviously passes the ethical standard for society at large. But there are small ranching operations that don't use agribusiness techniques such that the only alternative to factory farming is vegetarianism.

This is a crappy study. The "atheist" group was less likely to be married, less likely to have children, had fewer family ties, were younger and had higher levels of aggression and impulsivity and most importantly had higher chance of substance abuse. Any of these would explain the higher suicide risk aside from religiosity. Garbage in, garbage out.

It is my guess that the vast majority of "satanists", are more interested in rebelling against the mainstream, than truly following satan.

Ah, so it can cause evil (since it's the root), but isn't itself evil. So to the OP: no, not evil.

True, in antiquity (when gods were invented), less so today, though I grant that a subset of the number of current theists would invent their own gods if all religions magically disappeared.

Sure they "could". But when you look at what folks actually do, there's no statistically significant difference between the morality of the actions of atheists and theists within the same era, while there is a difference between folks of different eras.