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by JumpCrisscross 786 days ago
> Go to Wikipedia for “Money Laundering” -> “Notable cases” and sum the amounts laundered by all famous banks for the last 10 or 5 years

This is sort of like concluding bull riding is safer than eating food because more people have died from choking than bull riding.

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It is sort of like saying that crypto is less money-laundery than banks because more money gets laundered through banks than through crypto.
It's a terrible argument though. If I ran a bank that literally only did money laundering, and I applied your logic, it wouldn't matter because, hey, others have done it more in aggregate.

Even then it's like, if I killed someone, I could say, well Americans in general have killed X many people, so I'm certainly less kill-y than Americans.