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Originally Posted by abaya
I see it as pointless because no one's ever going to budge on their points of view. If you inherently believe that modern, complex societies are unconditionally, on every level (controlling for socio-economic status and distribution of wealth), less violent to live in than modern hunter-gatherer societies, I just don't know what to say. We're talking apples and oranges here (especially when you start bringing in the genetic view) and nothing that either of us says on this little forum is going to change those views.
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I don't think anyone said that, I think the point is we are a lot less likely to die violently.
I don't necessarily agree with Highthief in that we have evolved to fit these societies. I only have to go back a few hundred years to find Vikings in my and my wifes blood.
But abaya there is a fine line between the old 'White Mans burden' where every thing in the west was considered superior to other cultures, and trying to make everything relative. Some things we have done are perhaps superior, and many things are better. Its not really PC to say that, and I"m guessing you are surrounded by PC thought based on your postings, but there is nothing wrong with thinking that perhaps we do a few things better then people who are still in the stone age.