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Re:My new favorite book of all time by no_identd on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:43PM (#16261979)
>The explanation for the decline of violence in the second half of the 20th century is obvious: The bomb.

Sorry, but that sounds like a load of folk psychology. Leaded gasoline on the other hand, well, see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis

(see especially this section: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis#Evidence..., and the one on alternative explanations immediately below.)

And see also, the absurd boatload of articles Kevin Drum written on about it for MotherJones:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&dcr=1&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Cc...

(this google query has the results sorted by date, this: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/lead-crime-co... is their oldest article on the matter, and this [note that this one takes a bit until it gets to the point, but it gets there]: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/crime-and-the... is their newest on it.)

Re:My new favorite book of all time by brucephillips on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:47PM (#16262006)
The violence in question is war, not crime.
Re:My new favorite book of all time by no_identd on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:08PM (#16276576)
You almost, but only almost, make it sound like there exists a difference.