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You are surely aware that there were FAR more wars before this. War was basically just a fact of life for most people in most of our settled past.
by toxik 5y ago
You are surely aware that there were FAR more wars before this. War was basically just a fact of life for most people in most of our settled past.
- swarnie 5y agoThere have been other periods of global peace caused by domination of a single power, no one else argues that it was a good thing for everyone else involved. I could try and argue India is now a better place because the period know as Pax Britannica almost gave them the toilet but you'd rightly consider me a mad man. Do you think any of the places listed above were improved by being turned in to weapon testing ranges?
- janto 5y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace "This entry presents an empirical perspective on the history of war and peace. We also published a data visualization history of human violence here on OurWorldInData.org which presents empirical data showing that we are now living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence."
- toxik 5y agoI appreciate the argument, and it holds merit, but I also think that the H-bomb is such a key difference. It’s essentially a stalemate, whereas other periods of non-war* have arisen out of absolute conquest. * Non-war, I think, is a less charged term here, “peace” sounds like an unmistakably good thing, which it isn’t necessarily — or at least there is a long debate to be had about that as well.