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Old 04-10-2017, 10:31 PM   #693
zeek
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Default Re: Politics and the Church

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Originally Posted by Evangelical View Post
That's not how the statistics works. If you are a child you have a much bigger chance of being killed by one of Trumps missiles (in response to Assad) than Assad's chemical attacks, based upon the evidence. Imagine Trump has a weighted coin and Assad has a weighted coin. Trump's die is weighted towards killing children, more than Assad's is.
That's factually improbable and statistically false. The source of the story that four children died in the missile strike is the Syrian state media. and therefore probably bias and incorrect. Assad has conducted multiple chemical attacks and killed thousands of innocent children.

But even if you only go by the allegation that Assad's chemical weapon strike killed 20 children and Trump's missile killed four, Assad killed a larger percentage of the total number of children in Syria than Trump's did. On that basis, a child in Syria has a bigger chance of being killed by one of Assad's chemical attacks than a Trump's missiles.
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