[ExI] Death follows European contact (Mirco Romanato)

[William Flynn Wallace]

Look at the big picture.  Pinker cites dozens of books and studies etc. and
maybe some of the them are not reliable but he does cite several references
for each conclusion.  It would be quite odd if all of those facts about
reduced violence were right, but also extremely odd if all were wrong.
Give me page numbers where the data err in your opinion or someone else's.

Just which data is in question?  You can't paint the whole book with one
color.  bill w


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:06 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems obvious that since WW1 and WW2, nuclear weapons have stopped
>> large nations fighting all-out wars against each other
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> > thus leading to a reduction in wartime deaths.
>
>
> Yes.
>
> > What has replaced it is large nations picking fights with small nations
>> with small fighting forces, thus leading to many small wars but with fewer
>> deaths.
>
>
> Yes.
>
>  > Is permanent war against terrorism 'better'?
>>
>
> Do you really need to ask that question? The answer is not just yes but
> HELL YES! The bloodiest day in the terrorism war (911) killed 2977 people.
> The non nuclear firebombing of Tokyo on March 9 1945 during a non-terrorist
> war killed at least 125,000 people, probably the bloodiest 6 hours in human
> history.
>
> I know it's very unfashionable nowadays but I am a member of that small
> minority of people who believes that when the stakes are particularly high,
> like in matters of life and death, logic becomes more important not less;
> and there is nothing more logical than arithmetic. Consequently all other
> things being equal I believe that killing 2 people is twice as bad as
> killing 1 and killing 4 is twice as bad as killing 2.
>
>  John K Clark
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