SimonWing
Sunday 2nd March 2014 12:34pm [Edited]
574 posts
Quote: Raymond Terrific @ 1st March 2014, 1:54 PM GMT
Recorded incidences of violent crime have been slowly declining since the 1980s. Presumably the 1980s was when we started actually recording crime statistics.
Yeah, some people have trouble swallowing the fact that things are getting better.
The 12th-Century "Anarchy" years, amounted to 18 years of uncontrolled rape and murder when it is said that "Christ and His Saints Slept".
Then there's the Spanish Inquisition, or the 30 Years War (during which around 40% of the population of what is now Germany were wilfully slaughtered in what amounted to a bullshit religious cluster f**k). Good, honest, God-fearing 18th/19th-Century folk participated in the genocides of the native peoples of Australasia and The Americas, and then the slave trade... Elizabeth Bathory (slaughtered 650 virgins), Vlad the Impaler, The Golden Horde (50% of modern-day Hungary killed), The Harrying of the North (5% of England killed), Jacquerie, The Reign of Terror (40000 executions), Viking raids, Taiping Rebellion (20 million dead)...
"killed a knight, put him on a spit, and roasted him with his wife and children looking on. After ten or twelve of them raped the lady, they wished to force feed them the roasted flesh of their father and husband and made them then die by a miserable death."
He roasted children, whom he fed to their mothers. And (he) cut off the breasts of women, and forced their husbands to eat them. After that, he had them all impaled.
In every case a restrained and gagged victim was forced to swallow (by means of a funnel) a large amount of unappetizing, sometimes boiling liquid. Substances such as urine, excrement, liquid manure, and sullage were used for this purpose. Apart from disgust, illness, and the possibility of bacterial infection, the Schwedentrunk inflicted intense gastric pain. Because liquids are incompressible, the victim's stomach and bowels must expand to painful proportions to accommodate the copious quantities of fluid. The torturers then squeezed the distended belly with wooden boards or trampled the victim underfoot.
The early-20th-Century gave us the Holocaust, Russian military atrocities in Eastern Europe and Germany, The Rape of Nangking, tens-of-millions killed by paranoid pseudo-socialist psychopaths in Russia and China, the Second Reich's genocide in Namibia.... etc.
The 'decades'? The Khmer Rouge, The Manson Family, Jonestown, My-Lei, the CIA carpet-bombing Laos for 8 years, The Congolese Civil War, Mark David Chapman, the Kent State University shootings, Mau-Mau, the Munich Olympics, the Yorkshire Ripper/Fred West/Moors Murderers, Korean Air Lines Flight 007... etc.
A certain % of human race has always been awful.
In fact, on average I think we're slightly less-awful nowadays.
