Bob_Knaus comments on Availability - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 September 2007 06:55AM

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Comment author: Bob_Knaus 06 September 2007 11:43:05PM 1 point [-]

In the Bahamas the homicide rate is about 15 times greater than the suicide rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

Some of this may stem from cultural reluctance to identify suicide as such... but I think the majority of it is simply the mark of a violent society.

BTW, I love the Bahamas, I spend 9 months a year sailing there. It may be a troubled paradise, but nonetheless it remains a paradise.