When one person messes up, it affects a few. When Government messes up, if affects millions.
Yep, appears to be another meaningless truism.. without any real legs but supports an anti-govt thesis.
I'll bite. How many people were killed by violence in the past 200 years (v_total)? How many of those were killed by direct acts of a government (v_govt)?
What is the ratio between (v_total - v_govt) / n_humans and v_govt / n_govt ? If you divide the latter by 2 million, is it smaller than the former?
Off the top of my head, from general knowledge of history, I will estimate 320 million=v_total, 300=million v_govt, the number of governments at 1000,
and the number of people at 10 billion. 2/1000 violent deaths per human, 300000 violent deaths per government. The ratio is then 1:150,000,000.
Yeah, Richy_T's comment seems well justified. I would have to have non-cancelling compounded errors in the region of 2 orders of magnitude for it to be even slightly inaccurate. It does not appear meaningless. It appears factual.
I'm not sure how or even if it meaningfully supports an "anti-govt thesis", however.
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