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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 2 Mar 2014

    cf Crimean War (during so-called peaceful 19th C): 500k dead, > Iraq+ Afgh+Syria combined. As % of world pop, = to a war today w 2.5 m dead.

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      2. Ben Guinn‏ @AvesWithTrees 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Isn't your main thesis tenuous, as any truly catastrophic war would nullify or at least rob it of any interest?

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      3. (((CZARKING)))‏ @CZAR__KING 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @AvesWithTrees

        @AvesWithTrees @sapinker starts his book conceding the future is uncertain. Of Importance is understanding why we have become more peaceful

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      4. Ben Guinn‏ @AvesWithTrees 2 Mar 2014
        Replying to @CZAR__KING

        @CZAR__KING @sapinker Thanks . . . another reminder to read the book first, THEN ask questions.

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      1. Trevor Dustin‏ @Trevor_Dustin 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker is there an award for "most information expressed in a tweet". If so, I think this one is a contender.

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      1. Andrew Harrison‏ @ChiefHarrison 2 Mar 2014
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        .@sapinker Some estimates of civilian casualties in Iraq alone exceed 500,000.

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      1. RDMH‏ @Moral_Animal 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker @UkraineInEurope Apologies, but this analogy is VERY strained.

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      1. peter connor‏ @pyconnor 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker @JayMan471 Crimean War also brought the cigarette to the West, from Turkish soldiers

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      1. Ben Byrd‏ @BenByrd101 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker strange that ppl have such strong attachment to idea that our era most violent. We're no. 1!! (?)

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      1. Bernie Michalik‏ @blm849 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker better medicine now though.

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      1. Hachig Rudolph  🍅. 🌐‏ @alyanakian 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker Physics has its "potential energy". And sociology? What does peaceful South Korea have? Three sweet neighbours? Hot or cold= war.

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      1. John‏ @johnpm 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker Did most die of disease and infection and not in combat. Let a cholera outbreak in the Syrian refugee camps and I guess 2.5m W die

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      1. Hachig Rudolph  🍅. 🌐‏ @alyanakian 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker People make love faster than they make war, but make war *way* more efficiently. Nowadays. Review these #s after buttons pressed.

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      1. johnpdeever‏ @johnpdeever 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker Please don't start counting the dead in Crimea already. We want no bloodshed between these closest of brother nations!

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      1. ChandraSekharF‏ @ChandraSekhFNJ 2 Mar 2014
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        @sapinker might have addressed this already.. but it seems silly to rely solely on % comparison. army size must depend on many local factors

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