Username Weise here at ATS was Minn. Shooter Killer, page 21

Originally posted by Majic
Diminishing Returns

Originally posted by weirdo
Weise was a member and is no longer.Can you prove that there are any further members on here with that potential.Statistically there wouldn`t be as quantity of members too small, but that could be wrong.true there is no way of noing you obviously believe people are less intelligent than you but l stand by my words.Weise was a one off.

I guess I'm a slow learner. Once again, I see where this is heading.

Okay. Hold that thought.

Edit: Sigh. I'm Going To Hate Myself In The Morning

I can't help it. You are voicing a classic logical fallacy.

We have already seen it proven that the ATS member population has contained at least one mass murderer so far.

You are making the false assumption, without any evidence to support it, that there cannot possibly be more than one such mass murderer, citing the “odds” and claiming a “one-off”.

On what basis? Even if you go by “general statistics”, you are still making the fallacious assumption that mass murderers are distributed evenly and uniformly among populations, and they are not.

To see a mass murderer arise from the ranks of ATS and then assume that it couldn't happen again because it already has is irrational.

That's the basis of my objection, and your refusal to acknowledge it is the basis of my frustration.

If you have proof that there cannot be another mass murderer on ATS, then present it.

If not, then to reject the possibility that there could be another mass murderer on ATS on the grounds that it has already happened is fundamentally wrong and not supported by probability theory.

That's the point I'm trying to make.

[edit on 4/15/2005 by Majic]

Majic you really need to get over yourselve.

This as you have failed to grasp is a Discussion Board we disscuss not try to prove statements as if we are as accountable as in a court of law.I have no need or possibility of proving my statements,also that point stands for your your counter claims which really do show you to be really funny as you obviously take life so serious

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Since 1979 there have been 18 child school killers in a country with a population (fig from Census 2000 so far the most accurate but by no means 100%) of a population under 18yrs of 72.3 Million.

It is not irrational to assume it couldn`t happen again as the odds you rightly or wrongly disapprove of would increase the statistical possibility.Yes l know that could be argued the other way that if one was attracted to this site others would follow,but to date no survivng child school killer has every been a member of an internet disscussion board of this type.

Majic time to spend less time on your writing skills and more on your Psycological and Mathmatical understand of the subject

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This site holds very few attractions for the type of mentality shown by surviving child school killers.The oldest killers were 17 yrs in 1979 Brenda Spencer.Stephen Abbott and Jamie Rhous in 1995.The others of the 13 surviving killers were aged around 13 & 14 yrs.There more lets say colourful internet sites that would attract them.If you understood the subject better and concentrated less on scoring points in my writing you would have grasped the point l was making earlier

Majic l really used to like reading some of your points but recently you seem to have appointed yourselve as some kind of judge advocate bent on cross examining other people.I think you need to see somebody and disscuss points in your life.You need to learn that the frustration you feel when you come into contact with people that disagree with you is not a healthy view to have.You need to learn to understand people more and CHILL OUT ;p

[edit on 15-4-2005 by weirdo]