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Originally Posted by Crowbob
I had this discussion a little while ago. Violence has always been with us and always will be, of course, but I have become open to the possiblity that there is actually less violence nowadays. I'd be interested in reading some accounting of human violence over the span of history. I'm sure the data is out there.
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and a guy has studied it and found it has gone down; I forget which subset of "violence" he studied tho; maybe warfare
the world is headed towards most people rising out of poverty and joining the middle-class - ~~ 1 billion (if climate change does not cause too much social disruption), so that should further lower violence
also, warfare is much more precise nowadays; that also reduces the amount of violence - killing leaders (and some relatives) is a lot less damaging than a massive airstrike that wipes out an entire city