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> Right after they spiked to an all time high during WW1/WW2/Stalin/Mao reign. But it wasn’t an all time high, if you look at proportions, as we should. Pinke
by prepend 3y ago
> Right after they spiked to an all time high during WW1/WW2/Stalin/Mao reign.
But it wasn’t an all time high, if you look at proportions, as we should.
Pinker has talked a lot about this, and going far back in history [0] has estimates that 15% of people died from violent deaths compared to 0.15% during the peak of ww2 Germany.
[0] https://longnow.org/seminars/02012/oct/08/decline-violence/ https://longnow.org/seminars/02012/oct/08/decline-violence/
- antisthenes 3y ago> Pinker has talked a lot about this, and going far back in history [0] has estimates that 15% of people died from violent deaths compared to 0.15% during the peak of ww2 Germany. 7.5% of Germany's population died during WW2, that is just military deaths, excluding civilians dead from bombing raids by the Allies, hunger, disease, etc. The 0.15% number is absolute nonsense, and anyone who is seriously using it, knows nothing about history (which is just about right for a fraud like Pinker)