The Decreasing Violence of Man (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 04:41 (4594 days ago) @ xeno6696


> > > If you compute... crudely... the total number of dead in the 20th century (this includes ALL wars and genocides where figures are available) it amounts to 3 % of the CURRENT population of the world. (Of ~6Bn.)
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> > The 20th century started at about 2 Bn. That is the figure to compute with.
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> > When I was born the US had 125 million folks. By the end of WWII maybe 140 million. Judge WWII by those figures. You are a member of the population explosion.
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> The math is more complex than that, because the 180M violent deaths happened across 100 years. You start with 2Bn and a birthrate, nonviolent death rate. If you compute crudely on 2Bn, the total dead comes up to only 9%. (180M/2Bn)
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> You need stochastic stats (see calculus) to get accurate results. (Like what we do in insurance.)-.....because 180 million is better and more peaceful than 180 thousand... Enough said there. Statistically, a polar bear is the safest pet; would you buy one for your baby? I love how the author twists things around....Yes!! We ONLY killed 180 million... but that is OK because there were more people ALIVE to kill!! How wonderful are we!? Look at how peaceful we are that we ONLY killed between 3-9% of the global population!-
It is really scary how stupid some arguments are.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.