How is Norway one of the most “peaceful” countries in the world, if I have just witnessed 3 crimes of attempted murder this week ?

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  1. Confirmation bias (possibly)

    Edit:

    This falls into the same category of arguments as “It’s cold outside, so global warming is false.”

  2. Just imagine how much worse it’s everywhere else.

    Jokes aside most if not all the violence here is either domestic violence or contained within the criminal societies (the criminals and druggies hurt each other). So for the average Norwegian experiencing crime and violence is extremely rare.

  4. The fact that its making news tells you that it doesnt happen often. The world has stopped caring when a middleschool gets shot up and kids die in america, because it happens every other week. Get it?

  5. I’d recommend checking statistics for other countries. The media has a tendency to ‘hype’ a particular narrative as it gains clicks and public interest. It’s quite an interesting phenomenon and has a lot to do with how search engines and SEO works.

    You might be interested in checking out [MurderMap](https://www.murdermap.co.uk/) which documents murders within London. The current statistic for this year is at 102 for this year at time of writing. I imagine it’s much higher if you take into account the rest of England or even the UK. The amount of deaths in America far outweighs that number and there are many needless and tragic deaths happening each and every day that go unreported by the media in every corner of the world.

    Sadly, not all deaths meet the criteria for journalists to cover, only when it forms their narrative. The majority of murders tend to be between criminal parties or domestic violence. It tends to be the ones that aren’t that get ‘publicity’.

  6. Top 10 lowest murder pr capita (6) in 2018. Stats tend to tell most of the truth, but some of the countries probably fake the stats in these «polls»

  8. Small sample fallacy. The same reason looking out of your window doesn’t give you thousands of years of global climate data.

  11. Last week had two posts of foreigners saying they never thought we had drunk idiots in Norway, and now this. It’s not paradise, and anecdotal experiences like this doesn’t really say anything about the country or Norwegians as a population.

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