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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

that sure doesn't look like it's been going down for centuries. What about per capita?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Per capita, IIRC it peaks in the 70's. I've heard it proposed that it was down to leaded gasoline causing brain damage, and it's such a weird blip I have to consider that. Obviously, from WWII backwards through depression and prohibition it was plenty nasty.