subgenius wrote:Nothing could be more comical than what you 2 have already presented in the intellectual void of your circle jerk.
Yes, it is an apple/orange comparison because of several reasons. While Norway is maybe the size of New Mexico (yes, there is a New Mexico) your stats can hardly be compared at any level with seriousness - intellectual seriousness at least, but it does have a great emotional and lemming type of appeal.

Right on cue! Chap sure called that one! What reasons can you give that it is an apple/orange comparison that are other than your flat, unsupported, ad hoc assertions? Whatever else you might claim, it is still undeniably true that Norway has a much lower crime rate and recidivism rate than the U.S.A., and it would be ridiculously arrogant and obtuse of us to flatly reject the possibility that there is anything we can learn from studying how or why Norway manages to achieve such dramatically better results than we do.
Besides that, it is hilariously ironic for anyone who slavishly buys into Fox News propaganda and supports Trump to accuse others of lemming-like behavior.
I'm happy for you that you live in a Tennessee county that has a low crime rate, but
Tennessee as a whole has the 4th highest crime rate in the nation, regardless of how you attempt to excuse or rationalize away the significance of that. And yes, I agree that it might be instructive to study why your county has such a low crime rate.