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forgetsusername 10y ago
>[citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... Now where's your citation to the historical increase in violence?
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krona 10y ago
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined -- Steven Pinker (ISBN: 978-0-670-02295-3)
Iv 10y ago
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii-deaths-perspective.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii... Skip to 14:00 for the relevant part. The number of casualties in conflicts has going down FAST in the second part of the 20th century. We are in a historical worldwide period of unprecedented peace. The most recent aberrant point in that downward path has been the Iraq war. But even this one pales in comparisons of the horrors of the past.
- finid 10y ago
  The Iraq war was not really one in the true sense. It was just one country beating down on a smaller nation. If they had the means to fight back like the Vietnamese did, it would have been a whole different ball game.
- SimonPStevens 10y ago
  If you're going to watch that video (and you should, it's great), I would suggest watching it on the source website[0]. It has a better interactive version where you can move around the charts, and I'm sure they would prefer to get the traffic directly rather than some intermediate site that's just embedded the video. [0] - http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ (I love wait but why, and Tim Urban writes some fantastic stuff, but this particular page is just an embedded video)
jonathanstrange 10y ago
This is a well-known fact. Random link after superficial Google search: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ Don't pin me down on this one. Statistics differ because they count differently. However, overall they will agree that the number of conflicts is declining. On a side note, the number homicides is also constantly declining in most developed countries.

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>[citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... Now where's your citation to the historical increase in violence?

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krona 10y ago

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined -- Steven Pinker (ISBN: 978-0-670-02295-3)

Iv 10y ago

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii-deaths-perspective.html http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/spectacular-video-putting-wwii... Skip to 14:00 for the relevant part. The number of casualties in conflicts has going down FAST in the second part of the 20th century. We are in a historical worldwide period of unprecedented peace. The most recent aberrant point in that downward path has been the Iraq war. But even this one pales in comparisons of the horrors of the past.

finid 10y ago
The Iraq war was not really one in the true sense. It was just one country beating down on a smaller nation. If they had the means to fight back like the Vietnamese did, it would have been a whole different ball game.
SimonPStevens 10y ago
If you're going to watch that video (and you should, it's great), I would suggest watching it on the source website[0]. It has a better interactive version where you can move around the charts, and I'm sure they would prefer to get the traffic directly rather than some intermediate site that's just embedded the video. [0] - http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ http://www.fallen.io/ww2/ (I love wait but why, and Tim Urban writes some fantastic stuff, but this particular page is just an embedded video)

jonathanstrange 10y ago

This is a well-known fact. Random link after superficial Google search: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ Don't pin me down on this one. Statistics differ because they count differently. However, overall they will agree that the number of conflicts is declining. On a side note, the number homicides is also constantly declining in most developed countries.