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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It would be nice, but violence and mass violence goes in cycles, and we're ramping up to another period of high levels of stress on individual, family and national groupings. As the economy gets more frazzeled, and other factors come into play we'll see another major conflict.
Man's history is littered with periods of relative calm, but our nature is based around dominance
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What do you base this on exactly? Most social scientists and statistics seem to back up everything claimed in this book. Even taking into account the various wars and atrocities of the 20th century, violence as a whole has declined.