Is Finland Dangerous?

[maurine]

and thats why i said According to a Global Peace Index. READ AND UNDERSTAND

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[littlefrank]

' Too many lebs came into our country and started bashing up on Australians and then telling all of us that they were going to take our land right from underneath us.'

Yes it's always bad when people just walk into a country and take it over, is that why you're coming to Finland, you want to hand Australia back to the people it belongs too.

[NanaM]

and thats why i said According to a Global Peace Index. READ AND UNDERSTAND

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Here is what you wrote in response to a debate that thus far was relating to safety and the feeling of safety in Australia compared to Finland :

According to a Global Peace Index, that gathered information on 121 countries, the safest countires in order are:

1. Norway
2. New Zealand
3. Denmark
4. Ireland
5. Japan
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Canada
9. Portugal
10. Austria

i don't see Australia there. do you? Finland is one of most safest countries so far in the world "at the moment"

Here is what I understand :

- you quote the Global Peace Index, which is partly/partially related to safety in a country. It's not THE index of safety or feeling of safety in a country, only something barely related to that, as I pointed out - quoting sources related to said Global Index.
- yet you conclude Finland is safer than Australia based on Finland being ranked 3rd there and Australia not even showing up in top ten.

Did I understand something wrong ? My point is that you use an index that is not only and fully related to what you want to prove. If you want to use Global Peace Index, fine : you can conclude Finland is "more peaceful" than Australia according to that index. But stating Finland is safer than Australia (i.e. that it is safer to live in Finland than in Australia) based only on that index is biased. All I had to say.

[Pursuivant]

Feeling counts? Yes well I would *feel*safer living in a city 10 people are killed a day by ninjas than in a town 10 people are killed a week by random drive-by shooters.

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Would you? I wouldn't.

Think about it...all you would have to do is avoid people wearing bandanas and 'lifted ranflas'...But ninjas, they could be anywhere what with their invisibility tricks and disguises. and do all sorts of ninja poisoning etc etc. You wouldn't dare take a dump in case you got stabbed in the ass.

Ninjas are notorius for flipping out in public places.

I'll take over weight chicanos in chinos.

(an excellent film by the way ->)

[maurine]

my point was to try to prove that Finland is a little safer than Australia so stop bickering about and quoting my posts you fool.
i don't have any statistics or any facts about anythings apart from my signature. thats why we google huh!!!

and thats why i said According to a Global Peace Index. READ AND UNDERSTAND

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Here is what you wrote in response to a debate that thus far was relating to safety and the feeling of safety in Australia compared to Finland :

According to a Global Peace Index, that gathered information on 121 countries, the safest countires in order are:

1. Norway
2. New Zealand
3. Denmark
4. Ireland
5. Japan
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Canada
9. Portugal
10. Austria

i don't see Australia there. do you? Finland is one of most safest countries so far in the world "at the moment"

Here is what I understand :

- you quote the Global Peace Index, which is partly/partially related to safety in a country. It's not THE index of safety or feeling of safety in a country, only something barely related to that, as I pointed out - quoting sources related to said Global Index.
- yet you conclude Finland is safer than Australia based on Finland being ranked 3rd there and Australia not even showing up in top ten.

Did I understand something wrong ? My point is that you use an index that is not only and fully related to what you want to prove. If you want to use Global Peace Index, fine : you can conclude Finland is "more peaceful" than Australia according to that index. But stating Finland is safer than Australia (i.e. that it is safer to live in Finland than in Australia) based only on that index is biased. All I had to say.

[onkko]

Well my grandparent used to use "harja oven edessä" lock till they moved, their current house dont have that option. That tells something about safety. They had door really locked once in 85 or so when they visited family in sweden.

[EP]

I remember well "harja oven edessä" locks (broom leening to the door). The door was not locked, but the broom was there to tell passers-by that nobody is at home. "Bummer, nobody at home, so nobody to make coffee. I just pass by."

[raamv]

yes..BUT apart from the cities.. "harja oven edessä" is still Followed here!!
at least where I ve been to!!

[Vesper]

you could say Finland is more safer than Norway... I mean they used to burn churches down to the ground in Norway.

Finland is safe, very safe. I used to walk my ex's dog late at night by myself. Rape & murder was never my concern. I was more terrified what animal might be lurking in the bushes that would send my bloodhound into a killing mode. I plan on staying at a hostel there, my mother was extremely against them until she saw and read how safe they are in Finland. She watched that movie 'Hostel' about those people who stated at a hostel in the Netherlands, got kiddnaped, torture, and died. I never saw it, but I told her that's not Finland.

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

Slightly off topic but according to this UK doc recorded crimes are going up and so are crimes we know nothing about....You may use a broom in Finland but the UK used to be so safe we used locks made of paper!!

Interesting documentary....worth watching. It's called Brass Eye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPrCsfd1 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgRlPoD ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk-geWTL ... re=related

[raamv]

The "hostel" movie was set in Russia!! but not was a fictional horror movie!!
It makes you throw your gut!!..

[Bubba Elvis XIV]

I plan on staying at a hostel there, my mother was extremely against them until she saw and read how safe they are in Finland. She watched that movie 'Hostel' about those people who stated at a hostel in the Netherlands, got kiddnaped, torture, and died. I never saw it, but I told her that's not Finland.

It's not in the Netherlands or Russia....somewhere in Eastrn Europe...Slovakia. Your mum watched it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450278/plotsummary

Paxton, Josh and Oli are backpacking across Europe when they are told about a hostel in Slovakia.

They start in Amsterdam, and are lured to a hostel somewhere in Bratislava (Slovakia) where they're told they will find beautiful women.

Churches have beeen burned down here too - not so much but you know these black mental kids with that satan music.

[Pursuivant]

I remember well "harja oven edessä" locks (broom leening to the door). The door was not locked, but the broom was there to tell passers-by that nobody is at home. "Bummer, nobody at home, so nobody to make coffee. I just pass by."

Believe or not, I see that in south Estonia still.

[smoo]

Helsinki is extremely safe as far as cities go. I can honestly say it's the safest urban area I've ever spend time in if subjective "feel" is anything to go by, and I've been in various Australian cities. It's certainly far safer than any UK city I've lived in. One of the best things about it is that to the extent that there is any threat, it is self-contained in gatherings of drunken people, and they usually won't approach random strangers just walking past (there are exceptions of course). In most places, you know when you walk past a gathering of drunks on a Friday or Saturday night there is a fair chance of getting some attention or potential agro, even if it is usually fairly easy to diffuse. Here, people seem to more or less keep themselves to themselves even when they are drunk. Unless they are extremely drunk, in which case they are not much of a threat. Of course if you are drunk too, these barriers break down and then you are within their closed circle, and trouble is more likely. I guess it might be more difficult if you looked obviously foreign; being from the UK and probably with a preponderance of norse ancestry I look completely anonymous walking around here, but even someone of mid European ancestry is going to stand out a little more given the homogeneous local genepool, and that might make a difference in some situations I guess.