Jarhyn
Wizard
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- Natural Philosophy, Game Theoretic Ethicist
Man, I wish I could get shmecked that reliably!Are you schmecking me?Is this personal experience, or is it just some more bullshit? Second hand hearsay, or can you deliver evidence from a source accepted by me?I was on a local FB group and people were complaining about rampant crime. I found an article from the local paper that showed crime being down 85% since the seventies.Well, where I live 2, nearby Jr. High school boys were kidnapped, raped, and one killed before the perp was caught. And the gang/drug violence is rampant; and woman look under their cars to look for bad guys and rapists....Oh wait, that was soooooo 1970's when I was a kid myself (with per capita murder rates far far higher than today)...never mind.
Tom
Hearsay; unreliable personal experience: (unstated: crime is getting worse and I know this because) crime happened!
Valid personal experience: I have watchrd people complain about worsening crime, but measured statistics I have seen indicate crime is not getting worse.
Also valid personal experience: I have had many experiences with discrimination and bullying therefore bullying is a problem (for me).
Observe, the unreliable personal experience takes an observation and jumps to a non sequitur: that their perceptions create a reality of worsening crime.
The valid experiences do not suffer from this non sequitur; the former uses actual measures crime statistics to test the perceptions of personal experience; the latter merely makes observation that an experience has happened and all on its own indicates a problem for the speaker, from their perspective.
The key here is the isolation to perspective in the latter and the use of statistical validation in the former.
Making claims of reality, rather than merely of experience of that reality, is where it breaks down for Steve.