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You can tell who actually lives in cities because they're the ones who see through this and go about their lives unafraid of city violence fanfic.

There’s a big difference between someone who happens to live in a city and someone who is reliant on public transit.

There's also a big difference between anecdotes/instances of crime and a statistical reason to live in fear.

Sure, but fear has little basis in statistics. People still worry about plane crashes and instead opt to drive.

Right, that's why it's unfortunately so easy to commit the evil of manipulating people by nurturing their fear.

In NYC, private vehicles are responsible for 10x the deaths of humans than crime on the subway.

As such, I'm in much more (10x, in fact) danger from someone driving than I am from a fellow subway rider.

But yeah. The subway is way too dangerous /eyeroll. Please.

Sure thing buddy

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