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The Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

This groundbreaking book mixes psychology and history to provide a picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. Pinker shows how various forms of violence (war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, deadly quarrels, genocide) have dwindled and are widely condemned.

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The book was referenced because Stephen Pinker noted an instance where a mild-mannered engineer was prosecuted for shooting four muggers, which was used by his detractors to suggest he downplayed real violence.

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also Pinker is very bad because in his 2011 book the better angels of our nature why violence is declined he noted that 1984 Bernie Gats in mild mannered engineer became a full careful for shooting fo...

— Episode: Ep. 1050 - The Closing Of The American M...

Episode: Ep. 1050 - The Closing Of The American Mind

The book was referenced because Stephen Pinker noted an instance where a mild-mannered engineer was prosecuted for shooting four muggers, which was used by his detractors to suggest he downplayed real violence.

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also Pinker is very bad because in his 2011 book the better angels of our nature why violence is declined he noted that 1984 Bernie Gats in mild mannered engineer became a full careful for shooting for young muggers in the New York subway car apparently because he said mild mannered this was Pinker's tendency to downplay very real violence

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