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> We live in the most peaceful time in human history.

Any actual evidence for this? Or do you just mean the most peaceful for Western countries time in human history?

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/...

Yeah I thought that would be posted. Steven Pinker's theories only work if you do things like imagine that we live in a world without slavery...

Pinker reminds me a lot of the Victorian Herbert Spencer. They were both social scientists fascinated by biology and who believed things were just getting better and better. Of course Spencer's fame took a nosedive when the first world war happened (which wasn't predicted at all by his rosy ramblings).

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