Deathcounts are a quick but powerful way to highlight the human cost of an ideology. This encourages partisans to generate the highest possible estimates for their enemies. Unfortunately, that makes them nearly worthless for understanding the world.
Ok post. I think the "deaths from capitalism" infographics are useful as a response to BBOC or VOC estimates of "deaths from communism" but not on their own. They're also (both the examples you showed) clearly meant as a response to those specific things.
Deaths counts have killed 20 million people.
Do you have any good examples of deathcounts that include counterfactuals?
IIRC, the Stalins death count post you made on Twitter (that I quite like) doesn't include counterfactuals
Thanks for helping me articulate why Im always annoyed by those death count posts. This was a good read
Ok post. I think the "deaths from capitalism" infographics are useful as a response to BBOC or VOC estimates of "deaths from communism" but not on their own. They're also (both the examples you showed) clearly meant as a response to those specific things.