United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}

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@Mighty_Mouse

You can’t know unless you’re a lawyer, a viticulturist and a civil engineer.

Shades of “we can’t say which eye Moshe Dayan’s eyepatch is over unless we know which way he’s facing right now”.

"Moshe Dayan wore a patch on his left eye." Wait, don't you mean right eye?

There are certain conventions we use when describing people, and one of those is deferring to that person’s subjective viewpoint when mentioning distinctive features. The question is, why? Moshe Dayan wore a patch over one eye. If you were to ask him which eye, he would tell you it was his left. But facing him, you could correctly say that you see a man, and on the man’s face there’s a patch on the right side, therefore he wears a patch on his right eye. Yet we insist that, because from the fra…