On: Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity...

[anigbrowl]

Counterpoint: people who shoot up churches and the like.

[jessaustin → anigbrowl]

Those people are vanishingly rare. You're vastly more likely to die in a traffic collision than to be shot because somebody doesn't like your church.

[anigbrowl → jessaustin]

They're a lot less rare than they used to be. Likewise, few people die in wars until they're suddenly declared.

[jessaustin → anigbrowl]

We haven't "declared" wars in my parents' lifetimes, yet somehow millions have died at our hands. "Apocalyptic" violence in USA is partly an echo of our crimes overseas, but mostly an obvious result of the constant fear-mongering and dehumanization our media performs in order to justify those crimes.