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"What is the actual risk here, how many people have been bitten by this sort of thing and what was the resulting damage?"

Exactly. And what I essentially typically say is "the scope of the problem has not been defined".

We see this often on news reports on TV as an example. They go off with hyperbole about some issue but fail to address exactly how many people have been effected by it. Simply saying things like "there is a growing concern..." or cherry picking examples.

We see this now with cases of "police brutality" and use of unwarranted force. It's not that it doesn't exist, but that any reports totally ignore how often it actually happens vs. how many times it doesn't happen.



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