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-1 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 23 November 2015 01:47AM

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Comment author: brazil84 26 November 2015 04:25:11PM 2 points [-]

Do you consider the account of a man who says: "I have to revenge a blood debt because they killed my cousin" to be a unreliable description of someone's self-motivations?

Absolutely.

Comment author: Viliam 27 November 2015 07:17:31AM 1 point [-]

Are you looking for a double-blind experiment where in hundreds of randomly selected countries the civilians were slaughtered, in other hundreds they were not, and this was all conducted in a way that neither the people in the attacking countries nor the people in the attacked countries knew which was which?

Comment author: brazil84 27 November 2015 09:38:21AM 3 points [-]

Are you looking for a double-blind experiment where in hundreds of randomly selected countries the civilians were slaughtered, in other hundreds they were not, and this was all conducted in a way that neither the people in the attacking countries nor the people in the attacked countries knew which was which?

No. I am looking for specific, reliable evidence which backs up Tsipursky's claim. It is up to him what form that evidence might take. Is that a problem for you?

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