[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Aramike

This answer is flawed. The original argument, along with your subsequent rebuttal, both mentioned movement in a certain direction ("going the way of"). Increase/decrease is movement. Totals are not.

The original argument was about a *political* direction. So it's a completely different form of "movement".

"Much" safer living ... for now.

And how long do you think that growth will continue? And even with the current growth it'll take quite some time for the Danish crime rates to reach US levels.

Personally, I'd prefer to be in a safe neighborhood in a nation with a higher crime rate which is either static or on the decline than in an unsafe neighborhood in a country with a lower crime rate showing explosive growth.

Now you're taking neighbourhoods in the picture. We're not talking about those now. I'm pretty sure you'd be safe in the Presidential Palace of Sudan as well, even though Sudan is one of the world's most dangerous countries.

Your counter point is invalid as Bubblehead said nothing about the US being better than Denmark but rather not wanting "the US to go this way".

Thus insinuating the US way is better. Why would you not want to go the Danish way if you think the Danish way is better?

Quite frankly I don't want the US to go that way either, and using crime as an example, I'd prefer to avoid such an explosive growth in the rates.

Personally I rather live in a country with a lower crime rate than in a country with a high one. But if you prefer to get assaulted/murdered/etc., be my guest.

Maybe I should use large, run-on sentences rather than paragraphs because if you're going to attempt to break down each sentence without the context, we're going to get no where.

So if you claim something in a small sentence, I may not counter that claim because it is not in a large run-on sentence?
Your claim was flawed. What the context was doesn't matter. A flawed claim doesn't suddenly get true if you change the context.

I'm pretty sure I followed that statement with one mentioning other contributing factors.Kind of odd a statement to make considering that your original rebuttal centered on that topic.You believe that a better crime prevention tool would be to bury your head in the sand?

Centered on what topic? Crime prevention? I have never mentioned the word "crime prevention" until you came up with it.

How long do you think Denmark will have a much lower crime rate than the US, considering it's amazing growth? Forever?

How long do you think the current growth will continue? Forever?

When something grows disproportionately to a certain benchmark, it tends to surpass it, unless your math shows something completely different I'm unaware of.

Unless your physics show something I am not aware of, growths/increases tend to slow down and stabilize.