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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by watwut on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:04AM (#25713431)
Young people are less violent then they used to be. It is not just about their share in population, they behave less violently then young people 50 years ago.
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by flybrand on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:19AM (#25713534)
People who are less violent can easily become violent because they don’t understand the cost and destruction of force escalation.
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by watwut on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:34AM (#25714077)
Afaik, generations that grew up in violent times are more violent then those who grew up in peaceful times. Being used to violence, seeing it and/or being traumatized by it offsets whatever lack seeing the cost does.
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by vladTheInhaler on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:42PM (#25719508)
Really the violent people are the actual pacifists, and the peaceful ones are secretly capable of great violence? [CITATION NEEDED]
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