The Top 10 Atrocities of All Time
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I'm not sure I agree with the idea that unintentionally spreading disease constitutes part of an atrocity. I think the element of intent is important for something to be an atrocity. It has been alleged that the US Army was responsible for the High Plains smallpox epidemic of 1837 through the intentional distribution of smallpox infected blankets to the Mandan. If that is true it would constitute an atrocity. But the spread of the black plague from Central Asia/East Asia to Europe doesn't constitute an atrocity imo.
Are we supposed to believe every blog on the internet?????
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I pulled it from a blog because it was the only public site I could find the list.
It's actually based on a plot graph from this book:
I pulled it from a blog because it was the only public site I could find the list.
It's actually based on a plot graph from this book:
Torrent download here.......http://kickass.to/the-great-big-boo...-worst-atrocities-epub-orion-me-t7315213.html
I just downloaded it......Seems interesting......But don't ask me for a book report for at least a year....It a big F'N' book
After you read that one, check out 'Better Angels of our Nature' by Steven Pinker.
It uses some of the statistical data from White's book to support the fact that violence has been in constant decline.
There's been one slight omission- the concentration camps in Germany and Poland 1941-45, not just for the numbers but also the cruelty.
Easy, we do not even know when or where civilization started, and we can't ever know that the world now represents the highest level of civilization, we do not know the cataclysmic past of this planet, we have regularly suppressed archeological evidence by burning and dumping artifacts that do not fit the established paradigm. In summary, history is a mystery and that is by design. As example, and just one, the histories of North America refuse to teach about the mound builders of this continents earliest yet identified inhabitants,these mounts in the early eighteen hundreds numbered in the thousands, artifacts recovered included, copper and iron tools, script similar to, Sumerian, none of it part of popular histories. The total destruction of flora and fauna of North America at around, 12,500 BC by cometary entry to the biosphere, avoided like the plaque. So in summary of the sciences history is the most unreliable and misused to base any conclusions on especially one so insane as the OP presents. No figures whatever exist to support his claims and to make such claims he must be totally and willfully ignoring the fact of the dismal state of recorded reliable human history. We have no idea of ancient population numbers which could with ease have been much higher than they are today, as was the case with the big reptiles.
I like estimates. The bank used to make me do a revenue estimate for my business every year. Just write down some numbers about 15% higher than the year before and they were happy.
Tax man likes estimates as well. Just last month they sent me an estimated tax bill for a boat I got for free. Know where they got their numbers from? Looked in the used boat trader and picked the asking price for a boat that size.
What in dogs name is reasonable about compounding assumptions?
Look, if you want to make the claim that the numbers are grossly inaccurate then you need to prove it.
