I had a coworker once who was vehemently opposed to lights on the bike path because, he showed us through a chain of impeccable logic, being able to see victims would make it easier to assault people.

But what about all these studies, I asked, showing empirically that lighting pedestrian/bikeways leads to less assault?

Nonsense data, he informed me. Correlation not causation.

Nothing at all to do with him living behind the path & not wanting lights. Nope. Just unassailable logic.