the video game debate is moronic for this reason. whatever half dozen local shootings Modern Warfare 8 contributes to, and whatever few kids were inspired to enlist in whatever, there are a hundred million kids who get enough of that fix to never sign up for the real thing.
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germany and russia both lost like 10-15% of pop in WWII, though it's hard to judge how much is infrastructural failure and how much the infamous barbarism of the eastern front
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deadliest post-WWII was the second congo war I think. quick googling they probably lost 10% of their pop, mostly starvation and disease
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but this really isn't all that much compared to like, the thirty years war, which wiped out 20%+ of the holy roman empire
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an lushan rebellion is reputed to have been the worst by percentage but there's controversy over whether it was more that the census machinery broke down, but easily many millions
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more campaigns than mere wars but it's hard to think of anything rivaling the brutality of the mongol conquests or the muslim invasion of india
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From battle itself or from second order effects like disease?
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