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amazing book. Changed my whole perceptive on how to view the world. Objectively it has only gotten better. Let’s put our beliefs to the side and look at the numbers.
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Has the book already been translated in arabic? If so, what are the sales figures and how has i been reviewed? @penguinrandomhouse
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Progress is not a trend thats growth forever but rather a bell curve that tracks our resource consumption.
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Would be interesting to know how much resources this progress has cost since the market is about to go into a permanent recession due to peak (conventional and unconventional) oil. Progress is added complexity and costs energy & materials.
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Cause and effect?
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Has rape been going down in Sweden? I'm fine with optimism but in some places, things are getting worse and we need to understand why.
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In no way is Pinker trying to say that everything gets better everywhere always. Yes, in some locales, there are short (or long) term worsening of violence (or poverty, or anything else). Can we evaluate the situations getting worse? Yes. Should that be the majority of focus? No.
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It doesn't have to be the majority of the focus, but we shouldn't turn a blind eye to it. Certain gov't policies can cause a lot of harm no matter the intentions. We should try to learn from this.
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Who says we are turning a blind eye to it?
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For Pinker to say that "progress has continued" seems to imply that things usually get better. But things have gone backwards before, for example crime rates, single-motherhood and STDs in the 1960s. And now Sweden's rape rates are going way up. Policies matter.
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Please consider. Rates of rate and aggravated assault were much much lower in the 50s. 60s and 70s progressivism caused all sorts of crime to skyrocket due to the breakup of the family and lifestyle relativism. They only went down in the 90s because of abortion coming in.....pic.twitter.com/3o0BM4aSWR
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...twenty years prior and therefore would-be criminals in poor, dysfunctional households (which exist because of the 60s and 70s) were being aborted; attacking a symptom rather than a root cause. Also violence against women is a vast minority of all violent acts.
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What about approval of domestic violence (for both men and women)? I'd imagine it's also been decreasing since 1995. Is that the case?
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