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gjm comments on What did governments get right? Gotta list them all! - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 19 September 2013 07:23:19PM *  3 points [-]

Is this the true reason?

It's hard to be sure, of course. But: (1) even in large cities in the country where I live the rate of serous crime is low, and the regions of those cities where the rate is higher are not the more "resource-rich" regions; (2) most likely I fear violent crime more than I should on the basis of its frequency; certainly everything I've seen suggests that most of us do. If #2 still bothers you, though, please pretend that I wrote "need have essentially no fear".

[EDITED to fix a typo.]