That’s the sum of your thoughts? What a waste of time this turned out to be.
Human action,
You dismiss anything that doesnt look good or support your cause
I dont want to be your kumquat, sorry. As far as stranger danger being no big deal, have you been balsy enough yet to called Erin Runnion to inform her that I am making too big a deal out of this issue?
What’s there to dismiss? I explain, at length, what your hypothetical of Zimmerman lying to the dispatcher implies, and why it’s not plausible. You reply with this:
A wildly inaccurate, wildly insubstantial recap of my arguments that doesn’t actually address, let alone rebut, any part of it.
What am I supposed to do with that?
Would Erin Runnion even know who Tollhouse is or why you are discussing her daughter on an internet thread titled “Martin/Zimmerman: humble opinions and speculation thread”?
I would speculate that she would think you were trolling red herrings because you had run out of arguments about the TM/GZ case.
You are really having a problem with the difference between “statistically unlikely” and “impossible”, aren’t you, my sour persimmon?
First, to answer your question, however illiterate it may be; no, I haven’t called those grieving parents to tell them that some person on the internet thinks that the statistical anomaly that was their child’s death is a big deal…largely because that would be unkind.
Just the way that calling someone who’s child was killed by an elephant and saying “Hey, sorry about the bizarre statistical anomaly by which your child was killed.” would be unkind.
But even though deaths by elephants do, in fact, happen, we don’t create huge campaigns to try to prevent them, because they’re rare. Which is why the stranger-danger paradigm is going the way of the “Satanic Ritual Abuse” idea and the " ‘Evil Orientals’ drugging our pure young girls and selling them into white slavery" idea died.
Abduction by stranger isn’t as rare as death-by-elephant , but it’s still exceedingly rare*…perhaps you can work out the analogy yourself?
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115 out of 800,000 is a teeny-tiny percent. Do you remember our last lesson where we talked about percents? This is a case where they’re useful.
PS: It’s spelled “ballsy”,
Ok, …so you didnt let those parents know that child abduction is insignificant. You could email Erin Runnion to let her know her program that goes into schools is really not necessary
I dont think she would feel child abduction is a ‘red herring’
Trayvon was 17 being followed by a strange man in a car. Why do you think it a ridiculous notion that the very real issue of kids who have been molested or hurt/killed in that type of scenario would not have entered Trayvons mind?
Why don’t you care about elephant deaths, Tollhouse? I dare you to call Mallappa’s family and tell them that elephant deaths aren’t a real problem that should be taught about in schools.
Ok,…so you didn’t understand my post. I’ll try to use smaller words next time.
As an aside, if you think stranger-danger is so incredibly important, have you called up President Obama and threatened to harm him unless he devotes 3% of our gross domestic product* to the StrangerDanger cause? Why not? Don’t you CARE about Erin Runnion? Hayter.
Also? Have you considered the usefulness of the apostrophe as an aid to clarity in written communication? If not, perhaps you should.
*hint: before you assume “gross domestic product” means things like “rubber doggie poo”, look up the term and save yourself some embarrassment.
I would speculate that she would think you are harrasing her by asking people to call her about what she thinks about your opinion in a TM/GZ trial thread.
Also, although child abductions by a stranger arent commonplace, they suddenly become relevant to a person when a situation occurs that looks like they might be in that position. So Feris your position that " well, what the hell, the issue of a stranger harming or abducting a child is rare, so its irrelevant" doesnt apply here. In other words, yes, thankfully harm or abduction by a stranger is rare but when a kid finds themselves in a situation where it looks like that is a threat, then it doesnt matter anymore that its rare. When a kid is being followed or approached by a strange man in a car, by your logic, the kid just says to themselves " this cant be happening, and Im not afraid, because afterall this type of thing doesnt happen very often"
Zimmie put on a lot of weight, but he’s hardly an elephant.
Mmm, I think any normal person would be able to see that I was making a point that child abduction IS important to those people it happens to. I have seen people say this sort of thing publicly, such as if a person doesnt think an issue is important, such as extra airport security to fight terrorsim, they should tell that to a family of a 911 victim
Mocking Mallappa’s family’s pain, eh? Typical tactic of those who call elephant deaths a red herring.
Because he was a seventeen year old boy. A seventeen year old boy isn’t going to think “kidnapper” or “rapist”, he’ll think “mugger” or “hooligan”.
Or “creepy-ass cracker”.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes. Well done. Not that I cotton to **Tollhouse’s **theory, but comparing Zimmerman (who was skulking around in the dark following Martin) to a potential childm molester is order’s of magnitude closer to reality that comparing him to a fucking elephant.
Or “elephant,” apparently.