Comment by GVIrish
6 years ago
Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.
6 years ago
Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.
The premise is that Sri Lanka has unusually low crime and unusually high suicide, and the following argument is trying to explain that. But judged by murder rate (the most consistent crime stat), Sri Lanka doesn't have unusually low crime.