NancyLebovitz comments on Avoiding the emergency room - Less Wrong

7 Post author: NancyLebovitz 14 May 2013 08:23PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 May 2013 11:41:45PM 8 points [-]

The claim is that letting yourself be coerced into a vehicle means you'll be taken somewhere that you'll be even more vulnerable. It's better to risk being shot in a more public place while trying to get away or call for help.

None of advice is based on the premise that you can stay out of the emergency room by being dead.

Comment author: DanielLC 15 May 2013 12:27:12AM 2 points [-]

None of advice is based on the premise that you can stay out of the emergency room by being dead.

It sounds like it's based on what people who work at the emergency room saw. How could they possible know why you're not in the emergency room?

For that matter, how do they know it's not just that most people let themselves get kidnapped? If most of them do, and an equal portion end up in the emergency room, them most of the people in the emergency room will have let themselves get kidnapped.