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14 February 2014

Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence – True or False?

by Circus Bazaar

Independent News and Analysis platform dedicated to bringing issues of Political & Social significance to public discourse worldwide.

Steven Pinker makes a convincing case for why the world has become less violent in recent history.

Have governments simply become better at passive coercion or have we swapped violence over fellow man for an ever more brutal conquest over nature cloaked in scientific advancement? These are some of the counter arguments and can this condition last?

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