It's all anchoring. It's fun to compare American cops shooting blacks to (say) Praetorian guard, but latter was way worse
Conversation
Replying to
has any civilization incarcerated such a high % of its population in all of history?
1
Replying to
Depends on what you mean by incarceration, and whether you judge modern institutions by U.S. alone or all lib dem ones
1
Replying to
Maybe it's a bit of claim credit, assign blame, but I attribute incarceration to ghosts of slavery from non-lib-dem past
1
Replying to
I give you: the Opium Wars and how China got de facto colonized without the land wars that were needed for India :)
1
1
Replying to
Not trying to condone everything about status quo. Just calibrating tiny secular signal buried in big cyclic swings
1
1
Replying to
I guess you've read the many criticisms of pinker's thesis so you will understand why I am skeptical
4
Replying to
The one truly undeniable vector of massive increase in violence/cruelty by historical standards is probably factory farming
1
2
Replying to
It's worse. We've always had human prisons of some sort on large scale. Not so for animals.
Replying to
new tech allows us to concentrate people or animals together in horrible conditions without killing them
1
3
Replying to
Gotta back out of bunny trail and go do some work for the evil guard-labor stabilized system now, to earn my Moscow Mules:)
1
2
Show replies

