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Originally Posted by rubecube
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.
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I don't buy it because technology has given us the ability to be more selective in our application of violence. Wars will probably have lower casualty counts but will be every bit as destructive on an economic scale. If you look at the two wars that the American's fought recently, the casualties were far lower then what you saw in previous wars because of the use of technology.
Lets be honest, if you look at the brutallity of WW2, it was a cleaner war in a lot of ways then WW1, which was cleaner then the wars in the past where artillary was indescriminant and the action was extremely close quarters.
We're not becoming less violent, we're getting more proficient at it.