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How Human Violence Stacks Up Against Other Killer Animals
Humans get some of their knack for killing each other from the primate family tree, a new study says—but that doesn’t let us off the hook.
"One pattern stood out pretty clearly: Lethal violence increased over the course of mammal evolution. While only about 0.3 percent of all mammals die in conflict with members of their own species, that rate is sixfold higher, or about 2 percent, for primates. Early humans likewise should have about a 2 percent rate—and that lines up with evidence of violence in Paleolithic human remains.
The medieval period was a particular killer, with human-on-human violence responsible for 12 percent of recorded deaths. But for the last century, we’ve been relatively peaceable, killing one another off at a rate of just 1.33 percent worldwide. And in the least violent parts of the world today, we enjoy homicide rates as low as 0.01 percent."
But here's a brutal blackpill: that 1.33% homicide rate is DESPITE human government and law enforcement. Look at what happens when civil society/law and order breaks down: Increase in murder rate by literally hundreds of percentage points:
800% increase in murder.
Fact is, the advent of advanced civilization made humans MORE violent rather than less, because in a complex society there are more rewards for being violent: Expansion via war for resources and territory which you NEED if you don't want your people to starve. Jfl literally the only reason we don't all kill each other is because we fear the law and what people would do to us. When that stops being the case, the murder rate VASTLY exceeds the 2% of other primates. This is even hinted at in the article where it mentions at one point almost one in every fucking ten humans was killed by another one.
