The Myth Of Violence

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1. What myth about violence is happening today? The myth about violence happening today is that modernity has brought us terrible vilence and perhaps that native people live in a state of harmony that we have departed form our peril. 2. What does Pinker argue about violence? Pinker argues that our ansestors were far more violent that we are. Violence has been in decline for long stretched of time, and today we are living in the most peaceful time. 3. How do the homicide rates or deaths in warfare from the past compare to today? In the middle ages, the rate of homicides went form 100 deaths per 100,000 people per year to less than one homocide per 100,000 people per year in seven or eight european countries. The rates of warfare

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