The fear of election violence

The fear of election violence

Humans are driven to reason inductively: they experience something occurring in a pattern and draw conclusions as to the likelihood of it happening again. We see the sun rising in the east every morning, and we predict it will rise again tomorrow morning in the east. At the more mundane – but visceral – level, having had experiences either personally or from their reading that violence has accompanied most general elections, they can be forgiven…