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Old 09-26-2024, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
As to the FBI report - let's say that Chicago and Philadelphia refuse to report violent crime. So, they get left OUT of the FBI report every year. That report will still be of value for evaluating the National TREND, which is the main point of the FBI report. The US as an entity is much greater than a FEW cities.
.......The last sentence seems to me to be an OVER-GENERALIZATION where many variable quantities are lumped together And I disagree with the conclusion that a person can't believe ANYTHING because the experts lie. That conclusion is too NEGATIVE for me. The whole FABRIC of society is BASED on trust. We depend on our established institutions to give us economic stability. To lose that TRUST is to stumble into an abyss of social uncertainty. We MUST guard AGAINST that !
No, if the conclusion being presented as fact purposely omits multiple critical data, then the entire premise is useless.

Society historically has been based on trust. But now there is enough information available rapidly to make it clear that much of what has been presented is not trustworthy.