Human violence and history. Increasing or decreasing? (Humans)

by David Turell , Sunday, April 15, 2012, 05:32 (4604 days ago) @ xeno6696

The verbal battle I had a few weeks back with Tony, were predicated on the concept that Stephen Pinker argues for, that in developed, westernized societies, violence has decreased. 
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> This is certainly a contrary hypothesis to what history has told me, and Tony has reiterated many of my own arguments several times. 
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> This thread will be a recording of Pinker's arguments as I understand them, and all are free to comment.
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> The book I'm reading is "The Better Angels of our Nature."-We are more civilized and kill more efficiently. Does Pinker keep annotated body counts as percentages of population available to be eliminated? Kill ratios? Tell us more. Sounds like liberal hashish dreams. 9,000 Syrians so far and the modern western world sits on it hands. Why was Libya so different? Madam Clinton under Obama and.....nothing!