Reply #158: And yet, despite the rise in more violent mediums [View All]

[Mythsaje]

we are actually becoming LESS violent than we've ever been--as long as you ignore the religious loonies, anyway.

And it's amazing how violent you become when your neighbors are raiding your village and cutting big holes in you and taking your stuff and dragging off your women and kids.

Chimps conduct war too, you know. So do meerkats. And lions systematically hunt down cheetah cubs to kill them because they're a rival for food.

The world is a violent place. We had to fight the beasts to survive, then we had to fight those who fought the beasts and now we're having to fight the people that fought the people who fought the beasts.

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