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I'm not the one making the assertion, you are. The burden of proof is on you.

I refer you to Brandolini's law, or the bullshit asymmetry principal. It takes much longer to debunk claims pulled out of thin air than it does to pull them out of thin air. So I'm not going to play that game. If you would like to cite a statistic, you must provide that statistic, otherwise it's as good as made up.

You're saying "I bet a lot of people died leaving subway stations" -- cool. Don't bet. Find it, share it. Then we can talk. Otherwise, I bet the opposite direction and your bet is exactly as valid as mine.

When you're doing that don't forget to compare the number of people who are killed or injured getting from the parking lot to their final destination. Unless you do I don't really think that's a fair comparison.



My original comment was

>I don't have to be concerned with being robbed, stabbed, beaten, abused, assaulted and pushed onto the train tracks in a car.

Which is true.

You're the one that brought in statistics and you know what they say about statistics.




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