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The Rise and Fall of Violence in the United States
Stephen Pinker's story is that violence has gone down steadily over the centuries, at least if we're talking about interpersonal violence and not state sponsored violence. I don't think there were like campaigns to change people's moral values for most of that decline in violence," he says. "Just because a lot of violence is morally motivated doesn't sort of imply the inverse that moral motivation automatically requires violence"