As of 2010, all forms of violence resulted in about 1.34 million deaths up from about 1 million in 1990. Suicide accounts for about 883,000, interpersonal violence for 456,000 and collective violence for 18,000.
It wanders from the original quote, but “irrationality is slow suicide” is a great connection to make. (And if you want a quote, I’m sure you can find something like that from Rand.)
But again: now you are equating irrationality with deliberate suicide.
Whether PradyumnGanesh is or isn’t (though I don’t think they are), that doesn’t change their observation that self-inflicted violence is a relatively common form of violence, at least going by fatal violence.
Violence requires at least two people, you can be irrational even when you are alone.
Self-harm counts as violence too, doesn’t it? And it’s not always accidental. The analogy stands.
It’s a very noncentral example.
From Wikipedia:
Note: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence#cite_ref-Loz2012_107-1\)
So, not that noncentral.
(Although, deaths aren’t the only outcome of violence, I haven’t read the cited study and there may be a huge availability bias here.)
Also, how often are analogies backed up by statistics?
But again: now you are equating irrationality with deliberate suicide. You’re not really drawing a very strong connection here.
It wanders from the original quote, but “irrationality is slow suicide” is a great connection to make. (And if you want a quote, I’m sure you can find something like that from Rand.)
Whether PradyumnGanesh is or isn’t (though I don’t think they are), that doesn’t change their observation that self-inflicted violence is a relatively common form of violence, at least going by fatal violence.
Would you call a cutter a violent person? You wouldn’t.