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…tand up. In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, psychologist Steven Pinker made the case that everything from slavery and torture to violent personal crime and cruelty to animals has decreased in modern times. He presented masses of evidence. Such trends, it would certainly seem, are highly unlikely to be reversed.

Violent warfare is on the wane, right?
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Elias Eliadis
Elias Eliadis
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Yeah sure. Did he tell us his medication so we can take it as well?

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