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To: xp38

“Assuming things are somewhat the same today there would be about 1500 murders in this world daily.”

Yikes! That’s one per minute - just under 1% of all deaths.

That may seem like a lot, but in hunter-gatherer societies of the type we all sprang from, death by homicide is close to 25% of total death rate.


62 posted on 07/13/2011 6:10:28 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: headsonpikes
That may seem like a lot, but in hunter-gatherer societies of the type we all sprang from, death by homicide is close to 25% of total death rate.

No, I didn't "spring" from one of those, and you might want to ask your anthropology professor for a refund.

The darwinian view: answers for the gullible.

64 posted on 07/13/2011 6:12:33 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: headsonpikes

I doubt any of us could comprehend and absorb the stories of 1500 murders a day in our daily news. It would be an endless litany of woe leading to permanent depression for all.


71 posted on 07/13/2011 6:22:45 AM PDT by xp38
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