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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by coldtea on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:49PM (#16467271)
>Why should we think it's not tens of thousands of years old?

Because we weren't born yesterday, and we now how it was in the 80s and 70s, compared to the 60s and 50s and 40s...

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Re:The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism by solipsism on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:10PM (#16468544)
You have to be joking. Rates of divorce? Would it even have been possible to pick an issue with more confounding factors?
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