The Better Angles of our Nature · The Better Angles of our Nature. The Decline of Violence •...
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The Better Angles of our
Nature
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The Decline of Violence
• Murders• Torture as legally legitimate• Capital punishment• Slavery• Wars
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Back in the day: Medieval Europe
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Legal Means to Interview Suspects:Rack and Wheel
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Last Public Hanging in America, 1936, Owensboro, Kentucky
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Based on the figures below, Pinker estimates that the 100 million killed in all the wars of the 20th century would be 2 billion if tribal warfare rates were used.
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Decline of War
• The following kinds of wars have decline dramatically– Colonial– Interstate (between major nations)
• But there has been no clear decline in– Civil wars that often pit nation peoples in the states that rule them
– International involvement in civil wars within states
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There has been a clear decline in the number of total war deaths even though it is uneven across types of wars