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

by David Turell , Sunday, April 15, 2012, 15:54 (4604 days ago) @ xeno6696


> He's constructing his argument very carefully, but so far the base is this:
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> 1. It isn't based on a strictly historical timeline, from 10,000 years ago to present. It's based around the concept of societies building features to deliberately lessen violence. 
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> So... I think he's more or less going to trace the history of nonviolent thought and discuss how its fits and starts have played out through history. Presently he's talking alot about the nature of the state, the concept of Leviathan. I think his central argument might be that societies that hold pluralism as an ideal will force themselves to be nonviolent, but again, I'm only in chapter two!
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> In terms of rates he directly disputes that you can just count the dead from "year 10000 BC" to the present (as one important historian has done, forgot his name). Presently he's discussing hunter-gatherer warfare.-I'm sure hunter-gatherer level was kill or be killed against rival tribes. Our native americans were at that level, but they did have the Iroquois nation of six tribes.