The most peaceful era? Right now.

[The Comrade]

spider has the stamina for this. i'll let him take over.

[Spider]

Hell. Call it 3 million, for shits and giggles.

Still doesn't help your position.

[The Dharma Bum]

Yeah, to casually dismiss the slaughter of tens of millions of human beings in a few decades as trivial does take more than most people can stomach. This has all occurred since the 1950s and we haven't even addressed a quarter of the violence that happened in the world during the "Long Peace".

[The Comrade]

[The Dharma Bum]

I would estimate the total, including the genocide of the Native Americans, at at least 25 million.

[The Comrade]

i don't give a single f**k what your estimate is. cite your sources.

[Spider]

[Spider]

[The Dharma Bum]

As if I haven't been providing sources the entire time. I don't know why I bothered but here's some more sources for you two to ignore:

Native Americans: approx 10 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population ... us_peoples

Philippines: approx 1 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War

Vietnam: 3+ million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

Laos: 350,000+
http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/ ... lion-bombs

US role in Cambodia: 600,000 dead and 1,000,000+ wounded
http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/ ... n0498.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_in_Cambodia

Pol Pot: 2 million massacred
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia_under_Pol_Pot

Indonesia: 500,000+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian ... d_reaction

US backed Indonesia against defenseless East Timor: over 600,000, 1/3 of the population
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/indonesia/index.html

US coerced Indonesia to annex West Papau in 1969:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB128/index.htm

Continued bloody war being fought against indigenes to this day in Indonesia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4839762.stm

Hussein goes to war with Iran in 1980: 875,000+ dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War

Hussein slaughters Iraqi Kurd’s / other Iraqi’s: 182,000 – 400,000
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB167/15.pdf

US attacks iraq: 80,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#I ... nd_wounded

Iraqi’s dead from US sanctions: 500,000 children dead
http://www.globalissues.org/article/105 ... -sanctions

Iraqi’s dead from US-Iraq War / occupation: over 600,000
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/

Nicaragua: 50,000
El Salvador: 50,000-75,000
Guatemala: 200,000
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm
http://www.yachana.org/teaching//resour ... tions.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB170/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB169/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/press.html

Argentina’s Dirty War: 30,000
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index3.htm

Operation CONDOR (Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay & Uruaguay): 80,000+ Dead/Disappeared
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_archives

US trained assaulting forces in the 2nd Congo War: 3,800,000
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arm ... htm#usrole


Thanks to Ignorance is Futile blog for most of this list. Saved me a lot of work. I changed some of the sources.
http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/ ... -27000000/

So as you can see rather than being one of the most peaceful races to ever exist we are actually neck and neck with the Mongols for least peaceful.

[The Comrade]

pretty sure the spanish conquest of mesoamerica, being almosg 500 years ago, counts as a different era.

phillipines 200k-1000k, that's a huge range. nice of you to assume the highest.

cambodia is listed as 200-300k as casualties. not 600k dead and over a million wounded.

pol pot has nothing to do with the US. we did not support pol pot. stop it.

your link on indonesia "Despite evidence that the United States encouraged the killings, there is no evidence that the United States intervention significantly increased the scale of the killings.[68]"

so there ya go.

at this point you're just blaming EVERYTHING on the US.






so let's sum some things up, dharma, since you seem to be ignoring so many things. if three million people died in china from a war it would be utterly insignificant as far as a percentage of total population. likewise, even if all of your obviously wrong numbers were true, it would still prove to be insignificant in the face of total population.