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Violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.
 
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 
Isn't keeping statistics on violence a form of violence?
 
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
 
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
 
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character,


commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
 
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
 
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
 
We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it's the right kind of violence, we love it.
 
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
 
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