There’s nothing rational about refusing to believe data you don’t like [...] It’s good to have an absurdity filter [...] But you need some kind of reason
Perhaps it might be more productive to ask oath why they find the numbers unbelievable?
two things that are, in fact, identical
In a culture where spanking is regarded as normal and (say) starving your child or making them have sex with you is regarded as appalling, there is a very important difference between spanking and those more dramatic kinds of child abuse: that it’s widely regarded as acceptable. That doesn’t stop it harming the children it’s done to, but it makes a big difference to (for instance) what the fact that someone does it tells you about them.
Perhaps it might be more productive to ask oath why they find the numbers unbelievable?
In a culture where spanking is regarded as normal and (say) starving your child or making them have sex with you is regarded as appalling, there is a very important difference between spanking and those more dramatic kinds of child abuse: that it’s widely regarded as acceptable. That doesn’t stop it harming the children it’s done to, but it makes a big difference to (for instance) what the fact that someone does it tells you about them.