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Why do people always imagine that there was a time when people were less corrupt & evil?

Brutal slavery & rape & violence were the norm all over the world for basically all of human history. When primative ideas or people from primative places invade modern societies we see a return of those behaviors.

I guess maybe people are so disconnected from the harshness of the natural world that they have just lost touch with everything?
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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

I'm convinced England 200-300 years ago was less violent, but still far from perfect

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Jeff Swann 2y ago

When people were escaping England to come to America...? Listen to the recent Bitcoin Standard podcast on Conceived in Liberty. That is now high on my reading list.

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

I think the peak of English idyll is after the peak of US-bound migration

Another historical episode I think was relatively peaceful was the Wild West / Old West period. I think the "outlaw" system did a better job retarding crime than modern mass policing.

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

This purports to show US homicide rates marginally lower in the 50s & 60s

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/