Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
The world is too violent right now.
I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.
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