IS VIOLENCE DECLINE

Is violence decline



Is violence decline

Introduction

In this video Steven Pinker explains the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present. He argues that, at first it may seem illogical and even obscene. Considering Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence (Dargis, 2005). Keep in mind that Pinker, like evolutionary psychology, holds that human behavior is the result of a complex heritage thousands of years of evolution, a salad between genes and environment, resulting in more patterns or less predictable (not determinants). However, in the following video explains how certain political and social, short-term (centuries), they can alter aspects of our life in relation to use, for example, physical violence.

Brief History of Violence

Violence is a factor that has always been in the various forms of human society, from the primitive territorial times. This violence is hunted by early humans who walk on this planet to serial murderers in our history have come bloodlust. A very old story of the twentieth century BC, tells the story of cognomen, a Roman soldier with a heart so cold that he was not afraid to kill his family with his sword only for a bet, the story is that the soldier cognomen , was campaigning near the borders of present-day Italy and in the middle of one night's game between the former Antonio frames soldiers, colonel of the squad in the world mentioned that there was no soldier brave enough mind to shed the blood of their loved ones to preserve their honor, it was arrogance cognomen to the fact that he was the best soldier of Rome made a promise to himself, his family would kill to preserve their honor, when I finish the campaign and the squad returned to the capital of ...