Declining Human Violence (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, June 15, 2012, 01:18 (4543 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

I'll add it to my list of 'to read' books for sure. If the violence really is declining, that is a wonderful thing. However, I still hold that if all he is counting is the death rate, then the statistics are not truly valid. Our ability to save someone from the brink of death has increased dramatically. So unless he is accounting for ALL violence, not just those resulting in casualties the numbers are off.-He has explicitly included deaths from famine, and from infection. (Older wars made us just as likely to suffer infection as direct combat .)

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