Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence

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CB 1000

14 February 2014

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

by Alex Pryjet

Alex Pryjet

Alex Pryjet is Viral political pamphleteer who patrols the internet for things of political importance to todays world. He specialises in internet communications and information management.

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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