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-15 Post author: CharlieSheen 21 July 2011 10:25PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 July 2011 01:49:57AM *  5 points [-]

What Aris said. Also, outside view is predicting behavior based on typical cases of a reference class. If you think, "This self-immolation will trigger a successful revolution because from the last 20 self-immolation cases, 15 did just that.", then you're taking the outside view.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 22 July 2011 10:59:49PM -1 points [-]

Its overwhelmingly obvious that most people who feel that they are selfimmolating as a form of poltiical protest, and most people who state that they are selfimmolating as a form of poltiical protest acheive nothing, unless...