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Re:The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain by derektank on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:03PM (#43875704)
>Do you think people just dropped dead?

No, they intentionally killed each other.

If I recall correctly from the last time I read Stephen Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature the murder rate in pre-Industrialized Northern Europe is estimated to be between 50 and 500 per 100K which is anywhere from 10 to 100x as violent as the global rate today. And that's not including inter state or inter tribal warfare.

Re:The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain by tim333 on Saturday May 03, 2025 @09:48AM (#43879013)
Indeed. Also an eye opening little bit of history is "The Forgotten Prehistoric War That Killed 95% Of All Men" https://youtu.be/NoFQjAHsWE8
Re:The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain by vik0 on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:42AM (#43879811)
Re:The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain by vik0 on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:21AM (#43879655)
>I read Stephen Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature

I don't think you realize just how funny of a source that is

I will just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

and this: https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/violencenobelsymposium.pd...