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  • My interest in war is that there is nothing higher stakes, it can be a fight for the survival of not just yourself but your family, community, or nation, or even our species if we are talking fiction (or global warming).

    So if we were to stereotype the genders, men are typically more interested in death/violence at a humanitary level and women at a personal level.


  • duffman@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldI choose you, Squirtle!
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t a rebuttal, I don’t have one, but some nuance I hope is appreciated.

    I looked at the studies a while back and read some discussions on the validity of them. I’ll summarize what I recall. many people were misrepresenting them quite a bit. The people quoting this number often aim to shed cops in a bad light and will do so intentionally.

    If I recall, 40% is the domestic violence coming from either member in the household. Not just the police officer.

    Another thing was what the offers reported as violence. if I recall correctly “violence” could be defined as raising your voice to behaving violently. So I suppose that leaves room for some interpretation. But when the numbers are brought up, the claim is generally “40% of cops are wife beaters”.

    Lastly, these were studies from the 90s and the researcherd generally did their studies on a single urban police departments. So old data and not representative sample.

    I don’t trust the number at all with the data we have. The actual rate could be higher or lower, we need better data.

    My memory could also be way off.