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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 May 2016

    Steve Pinker comments on John Horgan's view of war https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/steve-pinker-on-john-horgans-view-of-war/ … via @Evolutionistrue

    4:29 PM - 22 May 2016
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    • Jean André Mas (bright) SSN brian herring Atheism is Immortal Conceptual Femme Phallique Derek Dohrman mi_c_ra Leandro Fabbro Eki
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      2. Conceptual Femme Phallique‏ @Auto_Math Feb 23
        Replying to @sapinker @salonium @Evolutionistrue

        Jerry, can we avoid click bait titles with terms like "demolishes" or "destroys" or "owns"? That's the terms a Gorgias like John Gray would use, not someone with sound arguments.

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      3. Conceptual Femme Phallique‏ @Auto_Math Feb 23
        Replying to @Auto_Math @sapinker and

        That being said, great article, it would benefit from not being as vindictive as the person whose arguments are picked apart.

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      2. failed future‏ @wwwfranciswalsh 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        IRQ / AFG had "fanatical hatreds which nothing short of a brutal dictatorship could repress." from worldly men: @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg,

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      1. Peter Grant‏ @AtheistStoned 23 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Especially like this bit about the moralistic fallacy. @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistruepic.twitter.com/HNsPhERuXS

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      1. Fifth_Horseman‏ @Darth_Turk 24 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistrue Categorizing war as a cultural invention is partly a ferver to blame war on certain cultures.

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      1. Hallowestly  🎃‏ @westlypenny 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Great content, but that whyevolutionistrue website could use a major aesthetic upgrade.

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      1. Eric Greenbaum‏ @EricGreenbaum 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Attributing war to one cause is like claiming how a person's intelligence is based on one gene.

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      2. Spenol‏ @SpenolPalinUSA 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Don't you have some "SJW" college students to attack? Or are you done railing against "safe spaces"?

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      1. WHOLESOME IDF WARRIOR‏ @RBX_lua 31 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @tcjfs @Evolutionistrue I should make a blog post about a much funner theory of war. Namely, war as originated by language.

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      2. pestermann‏ @SebastianPhyre 27 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistrue We reduced illiteracy? Literacy is a human invention. Did we also reduce the lack of iPhones?

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      3. pestermann‏ @SebastianPhyre 27 May 2016
        Replying to @SebastianPhyre @sapinker and

        and we only "reduced disease" after we spawned it through agriculture.

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      4. pestermann‏ @SebastianPhyre 27 May 2016
        Replying to @SebastianPhyre @sapinker and

        yes, we reduced polygyny...and polyandry. Is that a good thing? Most polygamous foragers seem :)

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      1. Jack Butler‏ @jackrbutle 23 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistrue I couldn't read hogans original blogpost, couldn't do it

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      1. Fabio Chaves‏ @fabiogaucho77 23 May 2016
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        @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistrue I thought you were supposed to be the guy too optimistic about the end of war, not the opposite.

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      1. katherine mellow‏ @katydid_alot 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @SamHarrisOrg @Evolutionistrue Watchin this little bitch fight abt what causes war,shows its pretty fucking obvious how wars start

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      1. Christian Morse‏ @1639ChrisMorse 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        How do you know that brutal dictatorship was required to repress fanatical hatreds? This claim seems unscientific

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      1. Shelley‏ @Theshells1111 22 May 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @Evolutionistrue

        Sad - 7 proxy wars in 7 years waged by the most civilized of countries and still we miss the point.

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