On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Dave Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have over/under odds on the expected level of > inter-ideological violence this century, compared with, say, 1914-1989?\ > Hitler famously asked the Governor of Paris, "Brennt Paris?" (Is Paris burning?) Previously Hitler had ordered the killing of I think, 20 Parisians for every German killed by the resistance. In the end they only put to death a small fraction of that number. In any case let's stick with 20:1 as the ratio of revenge that seemed an adequate response even to Hitler in his manic end days. Now taking a look at the informal statistics on IraqBodyCount.com https://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/reference/announcements/5/ We have, *TOTAL IRAQI* *179,240* US & Coalition military killed 2003–20134 4,804 US & Coalition foreign contractors killed 2003–20135 468 179240:5272 or, 34:1 We've actually gotten very good at killing since WW2, this book goes into the why and how, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Paperback – June 22, 2009 by Dave Grossman https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316040932 When it comes to inter-racial, inter-civilizational battle the scale of violence is really something else. I've always found it odd that Paris didn't burn because there would be no point, the war was over, but Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo did, precisely because the war was over.
