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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by maroonblazer on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:00AM (#11496729)
Don't confuse a local maxima with a global minima. On the whole, across centuries, violence is in decline. Pinker wrote an entire book on this[0]

[0]http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0...

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by coldtea on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:03AM (#11496758)
>On the whole, across centuries, violence is in decline.

Have to read the book, but is it? Total numbers/percentages wise? I'm not so sold.

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