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Originally Posted by abaya
Does it occur to you WHY the "average" guy--who happens to own a computer, and have the time to sit in front of it, rather than trying to get the next meal from the Savannah--MIGHT be less violent than someone who isn't sure of where their next meal is coming from? Come on, you can come up with a better argument/example than that.
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This just proves the point. The nature of our lives allows us to be non-violent.
No one is saying we are 'better' as humans, but our society allows us to have internet arguments rather than worrying about who is going to bash us over the head with a stone axe. When that sort of violence does happen, we have elaborate infrastructure (police, courts) to punish the aggressor.
I'm honestly not sure what you are defending here.
Extreme violence was the currency of Central and South America prior to Europeans, the Moche make the Aztec's look like pacifists for example. We had cannibalism and highly defended settlements in the American south west in Chaco canyon. We had/have violent hunter gatherer types in the South Pacific and Asia. Even the Hawaiian islands were nothing but constant warfare and raiding until Kamehameha united them violently.
I don't think its a stretch to say our society is less violent than a pre-industrial one. Just look at our own history for that.
Its sort of telling that the oldest European corpse was found with an arrow in his back.