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Why Violence Has Declined By Steven Pinker: Chapter Analysis

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The shift of violence is motivated by a historical shift that has resulted in the decrease of violence globally. This can be explained in Chapter 3: The Civilizing Processes in the book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker that discusses the trend of violence through the introduction of centralized power, etiquette and the economic revolution.
Medieval Europe as indicated by the drawing of figure 3.6 depicted a very violent Europe. A knight would cut off the nose of a civilian as an official punishment for “hearsay, treason, prostitution or sodomy, but usually due to personal vengeance” (Pinker. 2011, p. 68). This violence can be attributed to kingdoms being very weak, that they resorted to bringing
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