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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Because it's politics. When you start allowing statistics to decide politics is when cherry-picked statistics by whatever party is in power or can best make their case are allowed to pass bull**** laws. You can prove any point with the right statistic, and the right statistic pretty much always exists. I'm not for ideology deciding politics, but something besides numbers is a good counterbalance.
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this is true. you can find stats for both sides of the arguement and sometimes you need to look at the bigger picture instead of just specific stats.