The world is becoming less violent?

[Pegg]

Yes, but do you have any evidence for that?

yep, everytime i turn on the news or read a paper :cover:

 

[Sunstone]

yep, everytime i turn on the news or read a paper :cover:

I see.

 

[Pegg]

I see.

violence is violence

someone who beat up a person in ancient times, and someone who beat up a person today is doing the same act of violence

im sure nobody will deny that the brutality of todays violence is just as senseless (recent school shootings or the recent rape of Indian medical student, for example) as the violence of people in ancient times. And when you consider the type of entertainment which is most common today (violence, gore and horror) what is less violent about that, then the kinds of torture committed by the tribes of the past?

we think we live in a civilized society, but we dont. We consume violence on a grand scale.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm from Australia and over the years I have noticed that it has become less violent. Its a great country and I love Australia. However, in an increasingly non violent society studies show over time there is a spike in homosexualism and transgender because of the freedom to be different. As a Catholic, I disagree with this but I also disagree with unnecessary violence.

I find it odd that a Christian would have any sort of objections to someone feeling safe enough to live out their life. Here in America many transgender people never come out of the closet because they are among one of the most beaten and murdered demographs in America.
As for children, there is no need for concern. Just because people have the freedom to have consensual sex with other legally consenting adults does not mean there is going to be a paradigm shift and all of a sudden society will tolerate an adult having an abusive sexual relation with a child.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

yep, everytime i turn on the news or read a paper :cover:

I can see how that could get you to "there's more violence today than I think there should be", but I don't see how that could let you say (validly, anyhow) "the world is as violent today as it was in ancient times."

I don't think anyone's arguing that the world today is perfect, only that it's gotten better over time.

 

[NIX]

Just thinking evolution here. Who do you think has a marginally bigger survival rate? The violent or the non-violent? Also, who is more likely to come out alive from well.... some act of mass scale violence? Aren't these kinds of death and survival events the natural weeding out process- that result in whatever DNA gets handed on?

 

[UTK007]

No, data indicates an uptick in ethnic and denominational conflict. The World Bank, World Health Organization, and the United Nations all have updated reports on the current conflict-prone hotspots around the world. Just because there is anecdotal evidence that violence is down in one area of the globe does not mean that violence is abated world-wide. Those of us engaged in conflict resolution are working to lessen the causes and effects of violence.

 

[F0uad]

i think it is as violent today as it was in ancient times.

Uhm.. and you know how it was in ancient times by reading newspapers?

We have nuclear-weapons, bombs, airplanes, tanks and so forth more: technology, different ideas, weapons and people its a bad combination.

 

[Pegg]

I can see how that could get you to "there's more violence today than I think there should be", but I don't see how that could let you say (validly, anyhow) "the world is as violent today as it was in ancient times."

I don't think anyone's arguing that the world today is perfect, only that it's gotten better over time.

how do you determine if violence has gotten better though?

do people hit softer today? Is rape better today then it was back then? Is there less killing during warfare?

how do you determine it?

 

[InsurgoInsurgiInsurrect]

how do you determine if violence has gotten better though?

do people hit softer today? Is rape better today then it was back then? Is there less killing during warfare?

how do you determine it?

I wonder if anyone tracks violent crime occurrences in america... Maybe the FBI perhaps? Let me google that a sec...

Crime Stats
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Choose Your Own Crime Stats - YouTube

 

[dust1n]

No, data indicates an uptick in ethnic and denominational conflict. The World Bank, World Health Organization, and the United Nations all have updated reports on the current conflict-prone hotspots around the world. Just because there is anecdotal evidence that violence is down in one area of the globe does not mean that violence is abated world-wide. Those of us engaged in conflict resolution are working to lessen the causes and effects of violence.

You have a link to this 'data'?