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Termyn8or -> RE: The human species and violence (10/3/2016 8:37:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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This is fucking pseudo-science.
I also have that impression. The methodology seems flawed. How can the researchers distinguish between fatalities and murders? A lot of judgments there without benefit of coroners' reports.
Scientists analyzed more than one thousand previous studies that referred to over one thousand different mammal species. They particularly investigated causes of death. Then, the researchers compared the number of fatalities related to murder.
This is a study of studies so there are layers of judgments involved. Not very scientific.
It is hard enough to nail down the genetic causes of physical illnesses let alone of human behaviors. There is a big early experiential component in human behaviors.
Nope. I don't buy the premise of this thread.
I don't buy anything, but there is a point here. People kill people. There have been guns for hundreds of years and only now it has seemed like more of them are used to kill humans, rather than hunt or whatever. Society caused that.
But I bet murders are actually underreported. for one, if they find you in a dumpster with a 9mm. hole in the back of your head it is pretty much assumed to be murder. But of all the people who die, how many were possibly poisoned ? That is for the coroner to determine, he finds poison then he writes down the word "murder" on the paperwork o checks a little square box. What's more he has to find sufficient poison to have caused the death, if your olady is poisoning you slowly because she caught you cheating with her sister, but instead you get run over by a truck, is it a murder ?
And then there are many cases where there is simply not enough suspicion to bother the coroner.
So if they find you with your head cut off or a hole in the head it goes down as a murder. What's more, what alot of people don't know is that half of those go unsolved. Part of it is they really don't care but part of it is also that sometimes they simply have nothing to go on. you catch your enemy in a dark alley and use an expanding bullet so there is no ballistics and there are no witnesses... And you never called the police and made a paper trail. They don't even know you knew each other. How do they find you ? Smart people never kill a "known associate". I am not a murderer but I know(n) a couple.
But the concept of killing does not bother me one bit. Though I would refuse to go to some other People's country and do it, and it would have to be justified, I would not be dead like the gas/beer station because he did not shot to kill.
We live by killing anyway. Even a vegetarian killed those poor defenseless plants. That is the way life is. And there are plenty off places where it is kill or be killed. One of the reasons I have no plans to go to Chicago and a few other places.
T^T
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