> so the "upper bound" of "bad behavior" has decreased for most. (A little caveat: as your "average human", because we're still definitely raping, killing, tort

> so the "upper bound" of "bad behavior" has decreased for most. (A little caveat: as your "average human", because we're still definitely raping, killing, torturing , etc. but with a smaller # of humans) To nitpick: How are we so sure that the average numbers have actually declined? Our mental stats for such occurrences tend to come from hollywood instead of actual historical data For example, in most historical wars a surprisingly small number of people tended to actually be killed. The conqueror wanted to conquer a land with most people intact, because those people would be the ones who would actually produce value on the land which they would then pay to the conqueror as a tax! Land without a labor pool to work it had very little value