Depends on what you mean by incarceration, and whether you judge modern institutions by U.S. alone or all lib dem ones
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Maybe it's a bit of claim credit, assign blame, but I attribute incarceration to ghosts of slavery from non-lib-dem past
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I give you: the Opium Wars and how China got de facto colonized without the land wars that were needed for India :)
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Not trying to condone everything about status quo. Just calibrating tiny secular signal buried in big cyclic swings
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I guess you've read the many criticisms of pinker's thesis so you will understand why I am skeptical
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The one truly undeniable vector of massive increase in violence/cruelty by historical standards is probably factory farming
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It's worse. We've always had human prisons of some sort on large scale. Not so for animals.
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new tech allows us to concentrate people or animals together in horrible conditions without killing them
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Gotta back out of bunny trail and go do some work for the evil guard-labor stabilized system now, to earn my Moscow Mules:)
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if this was fleshed out, it'd be a really cool thing à la Lincoln-Douglas. think about it ☺
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