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Macabre question I’m pondering right now: is there more killing on rough, lawless frontiers or corrupt and collapsing civilization cores. My intuition is that the latter is far worse but I have no data.
Absence of rule of law creates a less hostile environment than failure of rule of law. Though of course there’s more ways to die on the frontier besides being killed by competing explorers/prospectors. Star caring, thirst, falling off a cliff, sneks.
Note: thinking of actual sparsely inhabited frontiers, not colonizers clearing out a weaker civilization. That’s not really exploration per se.
The “exploration” of the American west was largely competitive state formation not pristine. Just very one-sides, and after the clear cutting the settling looked vaguely like exploration.
We will know soon?
Same; both would be necessity-focused, but the latter would have a lot of psychological luxury and denial on top of it, whereas the former would be more stoic.
There are probably way more people available to be killed in collapsing civilization cores than in rough, lawless frontiers.
On a per capita basis or sum total? Might give different results.
Per-capita? I'd bet more overall on the frontier, but more dramatic spikes during collapse. Brief, concentrated periods of killing.
if you take into consideration the other types of brutality that can be inflicted by one agent upon another, there seems to be no contest
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