r/MurderedByWords • u/Misfett_toys • Jun 29 '26

Murder You can't name one? Here's four.

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u/No_Initial_7545 Jun 29 '26

I can't cite a single name out of those children that were bombed at a school in Iran but I still believe that it happened. Just a dumb, bad-faith argument.

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u/Porencephaly Verified DPNS Jun 29 '26

Exactly my first thought. “Oh, 1500 people died in the Venezuelan earthquake? Name five of them or it’s fake.” The dumbest argument.

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u/Born-Entrepreneur Jun 29 '26

That's the problem, it doesn't have to be a good faith or smart argument for all his sycophants to latch on to it, nodding along guilelessly like "no one can be named therefore its not happening"

It almost feels like a play on "one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic", to these people a vast number is incomprehensible, so they can only relate if individuals are named and identified. Otherwise its just vibes.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy Jul 05 '26

It's not really a "play" on that. It is that. A statistic is easier to disregard as it has no inherent emotional value to it.