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Is War Ever Worth It?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Goodness Paradox

Many societies are getting less violent. We no longer have prize fights where people batter each other to death. And in most developed societies, and many less developed societies, the homicide rates are weiyh down. But i think war is something different. It's a very interesting counter argument by charles rangham,. talled the goodness paradox, which, you mean richard wred last year? Oh, sorry, richard wrangham, yes, sorry. The goodness paradox, in which he argues that we've probably become nicer and less violent as individuals. That the paradox he points to, is that we may have got better at making war, even as we've become

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