If you included people being starved and denied healthcare for "economic reasons", and also the number of deaths from avoidable illnesses caused by promoting harmful and/or addictive products for profit, the numbers would be less reassuring.
For example, a lot of animals are kept and slaughtered in less than optimal conditions away from our sight, but it would be a stretch of the word to call everyone who is not a vegan a psychopath for just eating animal products that came with some history of abuse.
The defining thing about psychopathy is that psychopaths like, or at least are indifferent to, violence face to face.
Animals are definitely an "out-group" for most people.
‘’’ • Cigarettes: 480,000 • Alcohol: 140,000 • Drug overdoses: 110,000 • Poor diet/obesity-related (heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc.): ~650,000
Total: 1,380,000
U.S. population: ~335 million Deaths per 100,000: 412 ‘’’
So combined with the 8 violent deaths per year it washes out to be about the same as the 420:100,000 prehistoric figure. (Using very hand waivey numbers - and excluding things like traffic deaths that have a huge utility tradeoff).
What a wonderful insight!
There's also the problem that as medicine and sanitation improves, deaths shift from causes that are hard to blame on anyone (eg. pneumonia) to deaths that can plausibly be blamed on society (eg. cancer, heart disease). Cancer deaths have gone up not because the environment has gotten more cancerous, it's because the non-cancer deaths have been eliminated. I doubt anyone would think that's a bad thing, even if you accept those things count as "violence".
Or as Stafford Beer wrote "the purpose of a system is what it does." The system we've built reliably produces death and violence - intentions or agency aside.
[1] https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/12/behind-the-scenes-...