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Analysis cannot be X in ~1900's vs. x + y these days -> "Oh wow things have changed".

Very true. I'm not suggesting that we should ignore the tens of millions killed in wars and as the indirect result of wars decades ago. I'm only saying that there's still a really large number of people killed. If you take a war like World War 2 that resulted in an estimated 10 million deaths per year (60 million dead over 6 years) we've only reduced that by a factor of 10 (at most, because the study I linked to is not all conflicts) which isn't very much, and that's still a catastrophic and tragic number of deaths.



Isn't very much? The difference between 20% of worldwide deaths and 2% sounds like very much to me.




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