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by Huffers2 1719 days ago
216,000 sounds like a lot. Does that make French Catholic priests more or less likely historically to be abusers than the average adult male? Can't get outraged until I find out.
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Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio. Additionally, don't forget the Catholic church purposefully not reporting these incidents to the authorities and actively covering it up; instead moving the priest to a new town to abuse new kids. That seems like it should cause plenty of outrage in us all.
> Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio

That's a fair point.

What are you trying to say ? It seems like you're making some sideways comment about "the media", but I'd really like you to spell it out.
Just that an article saying "group did evil thing X times" doesn't say anything good or bad about the group to me if I don't know how many times you would expect from any other similarly sized sample of people.