Your point is too thin and shallow.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:17 amThe numbers given to storms are based on windspeed measurements. The numbers given to earthquakes represent a measurement of actual physical wobbliness.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:21 amNope, I do not admit to the above.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 7:25 am
So you now admit that the number you assign is meaningless and merely reflects to your SUBJECTIVE opinion.
You deliberately ignore the general principles of the above.
Just as the relative numbers of earthquakes, storms, and many others ratings, the numbers I proposed are not meaningless.
The exercise of giving a rating [out of 1 to 10 or out of 100] to some event to assess its reality is very common.
When the rating is given by only one person that would be very subjective, but when the ratings are average out [ignoring the extremes] from a large majority it has objectivity, i.e. intersubjectivity.
I believe the majority of people will readily recognize the difference in degree of evilness for genocide at 95/100 as compared to 1/100 for pissing into a baptismal bowl. Even if they come up with their own ratings different from the above, the contrasting relative difference will still be very obvious.
If you have done research or a thesis paper you would be familiar with measurement scales, e.g.
7 Types of Data Measurement Scales in Research
https://www.formpl.us/blog/measurement-scale-type#:
where the qualitative [subjective(s)] are converted to the quantitative [objective].
The above outcomes of objectivity [with awareness of its limitations] can be very meaningful and can facilitate progressive actions for humanity.
Your numbers aren't even a measure of your opinion about a thing, instead of the thing. They're more artificial even than that.
You are trying to obscure the essential subjectivity of everything you are doing by dressing it up to look a bit like some more objective thing.
The numbers I have given are correlated with the numbers killed based on past events & empirical observations, experiences and potentially be killed/tortured/harmed in the future.