A specific murder ratio was invented to pre-empt obvious objections

Evidence

For three years the phrases “civil war,” “age-old antagonisms,” “blame on all sides,” and a coded set of stereotypes about Muslims had helped make the killing of Bosnian Muslims appear natural and helped naturalize the refusal to stop it. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 76 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claims that executions deter specific numbers of murders rest on weak data — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1952; Invoking historical precedent silences objections to one-sided killing — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 336; The ratio of guilty acquitted to innocents convicted encodes a theory of error costs — Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 777 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Euphemistic framing language naturalized the refusal to stop the killings #complicates (0.70) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 76