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According to the Gaza Bureau of Statistics, there are 341,790 children under 5 years of age living there.
Link please?
https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=6022
https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post.aspx?lang=en&ItemID=5901
341,790 is the MAXIMUM (unrealistic)
Because the statistics bureau says that 15% of the population are children aged 0-4 (even if we imagine that 2 million people live in the Gaza Strip (which is not true) - 15% of 2 million is 300 thousand. This was in 2024, therefore we add the birth rate index IN PEACETIME (although I somehow doubt that during a war they give birth there as in peacetime) and we get a MAXIMUM of 341 thousand children under 5 years of age.
So they exaggerated the numbers. Even if it’s a 1/10th of the claimed number, I think we can all agree it’s too much.
To say a lot or a little, you need to know exactly how much. How much did they exaggerate? What is the exact amount? We don't know.
Even a one dead kid is one kid too much. Are you a Zionist propagandist?
no. i am a bitcoiner. and bitcoin is mathematics. mathematics is an exact science. it does not tolerate uncertainty in those questions that require precision. if i make a conclusion, i must justify it. for example, if i say that many people were killed, i must say how many. of course, killing even one person is a tragedy. but you did not say exactly that. you said that people made a slight mistake in their calculations. that even 1/10 is a lot. so i, as a bitcoiner, asked myself: why a slight mistake, a slight mistake in relation to what number, and why did the arbitrary value 1/10 get into the reasoning?
Bitcoin, mathematics? Seriously? We’re talking about human lives lost. Innocent lives. Families erased, homes ruined. This ain’t about statistics. Be it 30k or 300k, what does it matter? It’s equally horrendous. Not everything has to be about Bitcoin. Sometimes it’s just about your moral compass, and that isn’t an exact science.
human death is a tragedy. you are right. but that is not what i said. i explained why i paid attention to your quantitative conclusions. you said about a small error in calculation and the ratio of 1/10. and i asked why such conclusions.
It was a figure of speech. No amount of violence and murder is acceptable. Especially against children. And that scale it’s hard to even imagine, be it 30k or 300k.
I completely agree with you. But you didn't answer my question: Why did you decide that the calculation error was insignificant? I think you made a premature conclusion. In order to talk about a big or small error, you need to know two quantities: the erroneous number and the real number. The difference between these numbers is what we qualify as significant or insignificant. We know the erroneous number, but we don't know the real number. Without the real number, we can't calculate the difference and, therefore, can't conclude how big our mistake was. Until we can objectively make a conclusion, any judgment we make on this matter will be premature. Do you understand me?