What may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history is that violence has gone down, by dramatic degrees, and in many dimensions all over the world and in many spheres of behavior: genocide, war, human sacrifice, torture, slavery, and the treatment of racial minorities, women, children, and animals.
Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker (You may know him from his TED talks) lectures on an interesting phenomenon obviously missed by all the police reality shows and sensationalized news stations...
READ MORE OR WATCH THE ENTIRE LECTURE HERE....
http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker
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