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polymathwannabe comments on The decline of violence as a lens for understanding effective altruism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 January 2015 05:36:46PM 0 points [-]

our technology advancement has reduced the effort it takes for people to survive so there is less drive to become hostile towards people who have what we need

Some theorists argue the gradual pacification of the world is older than that.

Comment author: satt 09 January 2015 03:25:05AM 1 point [-]

In fact, in Europe, the general trend of falling homicide rates even predates modern democratic states, ideological antimilitarism and the NAP's codification.

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