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Forgeties79 3 hours ago

You don’t take the single best and single worst examples of a thing that has occurred thousands of times to determine if the results are more positive or negative on average.

naasking 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That depends entirely on the specifics. If the worst revolution killed 20 people and the best led to the Enlightenment, scientific progress, vaccines, etc., you absolutely can judge your claim's merits, even if there were 10,000 examples of those bad revolutions and only 1 example of a good revolution.

Forgeties79 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you think this is a productive exercise and we are going to A) answer this and/or B) glean anything from it? This back and forth feels does not feel productive, unless we want to playfully and in good faith game out how this could maybe be done.