Selene Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I think this is brilliant - visual, emotional and logical... The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo. A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BaalChatzaf Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I think this is brilliant - visual, emotional and logical...The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.A...This goes right along with Stephen Pinker's thesis that violence overall is decreasing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 I think this is brilliant - visual, emotional and logical...The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.A...This goes right along with Stephen Pinker's thesis that violence overall is decreasing..Geez ... another Canadian Jew! I am sure that you heard about the US President's statement from last month that he is the "best" or "first" Jew in the Oval office...I have not heard the clip yet.About his Jewish background Pinker has said, "I was never religious in the theological sense ... I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew."[12] As a teenager, he says he considered himself an anarchist until he witnessed civil unrest following a police strike in 1969, when: As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike... This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist).[13]Pinker identifies himself as an equity feminist, which he defines as "a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology".[14] He reported the result of a test of his political orientation that characterized him as "neither leftist nor rightist, more libertarian than authoritarian."[15] He describes himself as having "experienced a primitive tribal stirring" after his genes were shown to trace back to the Middle East, noting that he "found it just as thrilling to zoom outward in the diagrams of my genetic lineage and see my place in a family tree that embraces all of humanity".[16 As to his peace theories, there are two (2):Steven Pinker uses a non-constant human nature to explain variable conflicts. He asserts that humans are definitely less violent, but their nature has not changed; rather, it is their culture that has changed. He believes in a culture of honor, in which people act in a certain manner to gain or enforce respect. He argues that it is human nature to get angry for wrongdoings. This is not to say that wrongdoings are part of human nature, just that the reaction to it is. Thus in order to gain or enforce respect from their people, leaders do not respond violently as frequently. In other words, human nature has not changed, but stimulants to violent behavior have shrunk.And the second:Steven Pinker’s main argument is that violence has definitely declined, whatever the causes may be. He says that, “We enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to end it, and so we should work to end the appalling violence in our time” (Pinker). Because violence has undeniably declined, we must be doing something right. He argues that our job is to now search for what, exactly, it is.According to Pinker’s theory, humans have been becoming better people. Their morals have improved, their knowledge has increased, and they have become better controlled. Thus, humans today make better decisions. With rational thoughts, humans can only improve and increase world peace. Therefore, Pinker’s theory suggests that the decline in violence, or more specifically the increase in peace, will continue over time.http://sites.psu.edu/jessicalee/2015/03/18/steven-pinker-on-peace-part-ii/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I think this is brilliant - visual, emotional and logical...The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.A...It is, Adam. Thanks for posting it.It effectively provides perspective. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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