why do we kill?

500,000 people

die each year as a result of intentional violence and homicide…

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150,000 people die on this planet every day. The majority of these deaths are the result of natural causes and accidents; however a notable percentage of deaths are from acts of intentional violence and homicide such as suicide, war, terrorism, domestic violence, infanticide, gang violence, honour killings and state executions.

As a former soldier I can reconcile the fact that soldiers die during times of war, but what I cannot understand is why so many people die from intentional violence and murder.

So I went looking for answers. Here’s what I’ve learned…

Chris Rhyss Edwards

Why do we kill?

Author of GoodReasonstoKill.com.au

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UNODC Global Study on Homicide 2013 seeks to shed light on the worst of crimes - the ‘unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person.’ In 2012, intentional homicide took the lives of almost half a million people. Global Study on Homicide

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Gendercide

100,000,000girls have disappeared in China since the One Child Policy was initiated in 1979

GoodReasonstoKill.com.auSource: GPO.GOV

Globally, there are an estimated

40,000,000+ abortions per annum – which corresponds to about 125,000/day

Source: Guttmacher.org GoodReasonstoKill.com.au

Suicide

Source: World Health Organization

800,000 suicides occur per annum around the world. Suicide kills more than conflicts, wars and natural catastrophes

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It’s estimated that

250,000child soldiers are being forced to fight in the world

SOURCE: WarChild.orgGoodReasonstoKill.com.au

128,000Total fatalities due to terrorist attacks worldwide between 2006 and 2013

GoodReasonstoKill.com.auSource: Statista

In 2012, homicide robbedthe lives of approximately

95,000children and adolescentsunder the age of 20

Source: UNICEF GoodReasonstoKill.com.au

U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq & Afghanistan since 2003

Source: icasualties.org

6,845

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Around 3% of all deaths in the Netherlands are by

EUTHANASIA

SOURCE: StatlineGoodReasonstoKill.com.au

The United Nations estimate that there are 5,000 honor killings every year

58% of the victims were murdered for being "too Western" and/or for resisting or disobeying cultural and religious expectations

Source: UN.org GoodReasonstoKill.com.au

According to the latest global report from Amnesty International, at least

778 executions occurred in 2013 (excluding China)

Source: Amnesty.orgGoodReasonstoKill.com.au

72 Albinos in Tanzania have been murdered for body parts since 2000 because it’s believed they possess magical powers

SOURCE: UN HCR Report on People With Albinism GoodReasonstoKill.com.au

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