<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:12 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br>
</font><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">> 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. </font><br>
</blockquote><font size="4"><br><br>You misunderstand, my intent was to praise Pinker not to bury him. The fact that the second half of the 20th century was far less bloody than the first half is entirely consistent with Pinker's views.<br>
<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"> John K Clark<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div>