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>Most of human history has been a state of relatively perpetual violent conflict. No it hasn't. Even the worst figured in Pinker's own cherry picked data show
by ABCLAW 9y ago
>Most of human history has been a state of relatively perpetual violent conflict.
No it hasn't. Even the worst figured in Pinker's own cherry picked data show that's the case.
Next, even if we jump fully onto the Hobbesian boat, conflict resolution and alignment is literally the raison d'etre of the state.
Finally, we can compare judicial effectiveness (albeit somewhat crudely) across societies (and within differential groups/industries )and the delta between them doesn't lead us from 'everlasting peace' to 'perpetual violence' either.
- darawk 9y agoI'm not sure what point you're making. Calling something 'perpetual violence' is fairly relative, I suppose. So we could quibble about that. But the point that society is substantially less violent than it was seems pretty clearly true. I don't really understand what point you're trying to make about judicial effectiveness either.