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GVIrish on March 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Inuit parents teach kids to control their ange...

Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.

comicjk on March 15, 2019 [–]

The premise is that Sri Lanka has unusually low crime and unusually high suicide, and the following argument is trying to explain that. But judged by murder rate (the most consistent crime stat), Sri Lanka doesn't have unusually low crime.

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