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Mass shooting?

"...a valid feedback..." ?



If you look at the whole as a non-personal system, then yes. When you e.g. see your city has suddenly more murders than before, you probably take it as a valid feedback and try to do something about underlying causes.


Only we don't.

Murders go up and down all the time. Average resident of that city doesn't really see that as "feedback". In fact, the average person is completely unaffected by that. Probably less than 0.01% of any demographic in the US is murdered in any given year in any given city. Even if the rate went up by an order of magnitude, most would barely notice. (Local TV news not withstanding.)




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