RE: Abortion is morally wrong
June 24, 2014 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2014 at 12:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Ah, but now that we've expanded, now that all those wonderful resources are snatched up (the situation that makes peacefulness pay, after all -excepting the natives)? Granted that we've been sitting pretty for awhile, but with the destructive power that modern violence has under it's thumb, what would it really take to make our current happy situation seem like a very temporary hiccup in the data? Pinkers book leans heavily on accumulated historical data, but should it surprise us to find a decline in violence over recorded history? Keep in mind, that by "recorded history" we were -already- all over the globe (so it makes little sense to claim that we learned to be peaceful in doing so, or that doing so helped with the same..givin that expansion is likely to be the most violent aspect of any history...we're putting the cart before the horse imo). One could just as easily assume the reading that our decline in violence has been due to our decline in potential victims. The environment is no longer target rich, especially after having eradicated so many "others".
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