Sam Harris book....
Posted on: July 8, 2007 - 10:15pm
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Sam Harris book....
I feel like a complete idiot but I've looked through both of my Sam Harris books about 4 times (End of Faith, Letter....) and I can't find the UN list of nations and there crime rates. Could someone please spare the time and tell me what page and which book it is in? If you do I'll share the giant diamond buried in my back yard with you! 
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I tried to Google it for you (I really wanted that giant diamond), but couldn't find an actual list anywhere.
Are you sure it was crime rates and not a list of human rights violations or nations that allow religious persecution?
Regardless, I couldn't find an actual list. I went through the United Nations website and came up empty.
Sorry! I tried!
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Pg 43 of Letter to a christian nation.
Brian reads the excerpt in the RRS vs. WOTM discussion when an audience member asks him a question about atheist nations.
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Thanks for your help Susan. And as for you V1 thanks for finding that for me. I'll be sharing that giant diamond with you... once I figure out how to get past the fairies guarding it. =(
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Aw geez. You didn't say anything about fairies guarding the giant diamond.
If I would have known that, I wouldn't even have tried. No one can get past fairies guarding diamonds.
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Sure you can, all you need is the horn of a unicorn and some eye of newt. Or is that how you get past hob goblins?
In any event give it a try, I could really use that diamond.
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Found the actual list! The numbers represent (in order) Human development index value;Life expectancy at birth ; Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools %; GDP per capita using purchasing power parity (PPP); Life expectancy index; Education index; GDP index; GDP per capita (PPPus$) rank minus HDI rank. You can get the whole report here: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/report.cfm click on "tables". (And yes I had nothing better to do today.
HDI LE CGER PPP LEI EI GDP GDP+
1 Norway 0.965 79.6 .. e 100 f 38,454 0.91 0.99 0.99 3
2 Iceland 0.960 80.9 .. e 96 g 33,051 0.93 0.98 0.97 3
3 Australia 0.957 80.5 .. e 113 f 30,331 0.92 0.99 0.95 11
4 Ireland 0.956 77.9 .. e 99 38,827 0.88 0.99 1.00 –1
5 Sweden 0.951 80.3 .. e 96 29,541 0.92 0.98 0.95 11
6 Canada 0.950 80.2 .. e 93 g, h 31,263 0.92 0.97 0.96 4
7 Japan 0.949 82.2 .. e 85 29,251 0.95 0.94 0.95 11
8 United States 0.948 77.5 .. e 93 39,676 0.88 0.97 1.00 –6
9 Switzerland 0.947 80.7 .. e 86 33,040 0.93 0.95 0.97 –3
10 Netherlands 0.947 78.5 .. e 98 31,789 0.89 0.99 0.96 –1
11 Finland 0.947 78.7 .. e 100 f 29,951 0.89 0.99 0.95 4
12 Luxembourg 0.945 78.6 .. e 85 h, i 69,961 j 0.89 0.94 1.00 –11
13 Belgium 0.945 79.1 .. e 95 31,096 0.90 0.98 0.96 –2
14 Austria 0.944 79.2 .. e 91 32,276 0.90 0.96 0.96 –7
15 Denmark 0.943 77.3 .. e 101 f 31,914 0.87 0.99 0.96 –7
16 France 0.942 79.6 .. e 93 29,300 0.91 0.97 0.95 1
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"Those who have stepped into the arena shall forever cherish a feeling the protected will never know."