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    A mechanism that fails to explain the far more common out... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Ingroup coordination by one ethnic group created a self-reinforcing cycle that compelled the opposing group to coordinate on assertive group identity, escalating mutual threat perception.

    A mechanism that fails to explain the far more common outcome of non-violence cannot serve as the primary explanation for the rare cases of violence.

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    • 1.Explanatory mechanisms must account for base rates; theories explaining rare outcomes often misidentify causal factors by ignoring prevalence.
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    • 2.If mechanism X fails in 99% of similar cases, attributing rare outcomes to X suggests X is neither necessary nor sufficient for those outcomes.
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    • 3.Adequate explanation requires showing why the mechanism activates selectively; absence of this distinction indicates incomplete causal theory.
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    • 1.Rare outcomes can have sufficient but non-universal causes; jet engines rarely fail but mechanical stress still explains failures when they occur.
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    • 2.The claim conflates explaining frequency with explaining causation; explaining violence doesn't require explaining all non-violence instances equally.
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    • 3.Context-sensitivity matters: a factor causing violence in specific conditions needn't explain why it's dormant elsewhere—incomplete explanation isn't false explanation.
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