Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away?

The years since World War II have been the most peaceful in human history. As Steven Pinker showed, we have been proportionately less likely to die in an interstate war over the past 80 years than in any previous era.

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That did not happen because human beings suddenly became nicer. It happened because the Good Guys had won. After 1945, the democracies were in the ascendant, and they were determined to prevent a recurrence of the 1930s.

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