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Comment author: ESRogs 03 January 2014 11:41:09PM 6 points [-]

I was following along just fine until:

One way around this is to find some robust metric that most people would agree indicates guilt. One such measure, I believe, would be murder rate. If people in different cultures vary in the guilt they feel for committing murder, then this should hold them back and show up as a variation in the murder rate.

What? Is this an exercise in confounders? Could no longer suspend disbelief after that.

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