I decline to go to Italy based on this and the other research it prompted. The nature of a power structure I am exposing myself to has significance to me even when I am relatively confident in my ability to keep myself self safe. For the same reason I would be unlikely to make a tourist visit a counter-factual USA which still kept all black people enslaved. I’m white so am unlikely to be enslaved but I would still hold what I see in contempt.
the probability of being wrongly convicted of murder while visiting Italy is low, certainly much lower than the probability of being hit by a car.
The information gained about the culture of Italy by the acceptance of ongoing public corruption is not limited to making predictions specific to whether I personally will be falsely convicted of murder.
I decline to go to Italy based on this and the other research it prompted. The nature of a power structure I am exposing myself to has significance to me even when I am relatively confident in my ability to keep myself self safe. For the same reason I would be unlikely to make a tourist visit a counter-factual USA which still kept all black people enslaved. I’m white so am unlikely to be enslaved but I would still hold what I see in contempt.
The information gained about the culture of Italy by the acceptance of ongoing public corruption is not limited to making predictions specific to whether I personally will be falsely convicted of murder.
So you are not going to visit Italy, and possibly the US, as a form of political protest?
That is not what I said. (I am departing this conversation.)