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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 05:48 PM Original message |
15% of prehistoric deaths were homicide |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Homocide, cancer from industrial toxins, what's the difference? nt |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 05:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There's a big difference. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. "Corporations are heartless people, too." Mitt Romney. nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. Cannibalism was rife too |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. And slavery, and rape. |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm all for the 2nd amendment but this is interesting considering |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. If you read the review, you'll see that Pinker identifies governments |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 12:02 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Right and my point is that in this country government doesn't have the same |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. "born into this era when "the state" controls our innate behavior." |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Law enforcement, prison, and execution. |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Well now, I was not aware of that the sphere of state power had expanded into the womb. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. "Innate" is my term, not Pinker's. So blame me. |
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libinnyandia (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. Big government |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. 15% of the bodies found may have been murdered, but you don't find the ones that were eaten. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 08:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Even those who were victims of cannibalism leave remains. |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. I remember watching a documentary |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. Funny... |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Self delete. Wrong spot n/t |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Actually, Indian tribes were pretty brutal |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. True, and an interesting story |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Actually, the Paleo-Indians hunted native horses to extinction 10,000 years ago. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is why I laugh at the romantic fools that think traditional peoples are so wonderful. |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. “nasty, brutish" is the impression I'm getting over and over from present humans |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
17. I'm reading this book right now. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
18. This makes me wonder how many people were murderers |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
19. No real expert in these matters, but I've been told that that's more disputed than Pinker thinks. |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. rocks don't kill, people kill. Being prehistoric with no written record, it is thought... |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. This has been argued for quite some time |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 11:09 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Exactly correct. We are not that different from what we call animals. |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. CONSTANT STATE OF WAR. |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
29. Humans are have always been a violent species they walk, talk, have nice thumbs and kill their own. |
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libinnyandia (526 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 09:41 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. human violence |
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