The Top 10 Atrocities of All Time

[darkbeaver]

I asked you how you know that 'reliable numbers do not exist for the last century and that in every other period both inflation and deflation of those numbers was common'...The beginning of civilization and archaeological findings don't factor in here.

And if you want to go back further than say the last century you mentioned earlier, well you can only know they're unreliable if you have some information about what the true value was. Nobody seriously treats the data that goes back that far as anything other than an estimate.

I estimated the unreliability. Estimates are commonly inflated and deflated. Recorded human history covers a tiny fraction of human existence so anyone making a stupid statement like "violence is less today than in the past" hasn't a leg to stand on and should be thrashed with a birch switch every time he opens his mouth.

 

[Kreskin]

McDonalds - over one billion (before they stopped posting the numbers)

 

[darkbeaver]

There you are and I bet that violence wasn't considered.