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Page 1: The Better Angles of our Nature · The Better Angles of our Nature. The Decline of Violence • Murders ... • But there has been no clear decline in ... OF OUR NATURE WHY VIOLENCE

The Better Angles of our 

Nature

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The Decline of Violence

• Murders• Torture as legally legitimate• Capital punishment• Slavery• Wars

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Back in the day: Medieval Europe

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Legal Means to Interview Suspects:Rack and Wheel

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Last Public Hanging in America, 1936, Owensboro, Kentucky

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Based on the figures below, Pinker estimates that the 100 million killed in all the wars of the 20th century would be 2 billion if tribal warfare rates were used.

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Decline of War

• The following kinds of wars have decline dramatically– Colonial– Interstate (between major nations)

• But there has been no clear decline in– Civil wars that often pit nation peoples in the states that rule them

– International involvement in civil wars within states

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There has been a clear decline in the number of total war deaths even though it is uneven across types of wars