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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (110068)	11/29/2007 9:05:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, >270,000,000 people died as direct result of war in the 20th century. name one century where that number was higher and i'll agree humanity is getting "better."< You know better than this. The number can't be higher because 270M is probably more people than were on earth for most centuries other than the last few. ;-) If we had the stats on the percentage of people that were killed by war or because of cruelty and also looked at the number saved due to kindness etc... for each century, I suspect we'd find that the trend is getting better. Though I would agree that the 20th century was a pretty horrific one. I think it might have been a bit of an aberration because there were several historic idealogical battles fought in that century. Free markets and democracy won (though you'd never know it if you listened to many politicians). The only battle like that on the horizon is the one we are fighting against Muslim extremism, but that is a smaller battle so far.