Comment on [Link] Death with Dignity by Scott Adams

Sat, 23 May 2015 20:34:07 GMT

"In one of a dozen or so countries where X was done, Y also happened" isn't even terribly strong evidence for "it's not possible in practice to do X without Y also happening", let alone "it's not possible in practice to do anything in some reference class including X without something in some reference class including Y also happening".

I've just noticed that the great-great grandparent comment was explicitly about that one country, so I'm retracting the parent.

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