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What is really at stake here is cause and effect and not just correllation.
To link major events caused by the natural world to our behaviour is ingrained. From the day we are born we have a mental working 'model' of the world around us to try and make sense of it. This is a primitive survival mechanism and obviously the 'model' gets better with time. That does not make it correct.
When very ignorant people who are self proclaimed leaders start to impose their very poor delusional model of the Universe on the rest of us, we have a problem.
Ancient 'civilisations' such as the Aztecs used to have human sacrifice as a way of appeasing their gods that controlled their 'Universe'.
So blaming bad luck on a black cat or spilled salt is along the same lines as blaming earthquakes on people whose behaviour you do not approve of.
I blame this all on these new fangled computer games the kids play!
Bert
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