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    I was raised by some of the most abusive people on the planet - enough to be jailed today - and surrounded exclusively by abusive peers.

    I’m sorry. Have you considered that they are perhaps not representative of the whole of humanity?

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        Furthermore, people compulsively fight and kill anyone who isn’t exactly like them

        Citation needed. How is there any diversity at all in the world? Not everyone is exactly the same.

        The only people who don’t think any person is representative of the whole of humanity are white supremacists.

        A sample size of one or a few is never totally representative of billions. Do you think everyone in the world is exactly like Greta Thunberg? People have a huge variety of values and personalities, you can’t boil everyone down to a charcuterie of the particular people you grew up with.

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            Uh, every fucking genocide? Read a history book.

            You’re taking about all of humanity, not just people who have committed genocide. Not everyone on earth has committed genocide.

            My sample size is in the thousands - more than that if you include everyone who has participated in a genocide. Even more if you include every bigot.

            Are you only including bad people in your sample? Obviously that would end up skewing the sample towards people being bad. Have you heard of the term representative sample in statistics? That’s how I’m using it.

            The problem - confirmed by my therapists - is that there were exactly zero samples of anyone contrasting.

            I’m sorry you haven’t met any non terrible people. I’ve met plenty. I hope you can meet some more people to change that.