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Re:Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace... by moo360 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @11:03AM (#15428463)
There was an awful lot of war in your "60 years of peace".
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Re:Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace... by mikeash on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:02PM (#15428692)
It was an awful lot less than most 60 year periods in human history.
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Re:Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace... by cm2187 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @11:19AM (#15428511)
Only between nations where one or both didn't have nuclear deterrence.
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Re:Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace... by wavefunction on Sunday October 08, 2017 @11:28AM (#15428557)
Or internally. Or at the behest of nuclear powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

And I guess those are just 'direct' deaths so it doesn't count all the deaths of refugees or plague or starvation that arose from the conflicts.

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Re:Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace... by dsfyu404ed on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:44PM (#15428882)
>And I guess those are just 'direct' deaths so it doesn't count all the deaths of refugees or plague or starvation that arose from the conflicts.

And is there and reason to believe the killed anecdotally to killed in action ratio is different than it was pre-1945?

Starving refugees were a thing before nuclear weapons too.

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