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Originally Posted by DNSB
I don't need to read military history to get my fill and more of blood. Trivial items such the number of deaths expected on a ship at sea, the number of women dying in childbirth, the number of children dying before even reaching their first year, using sulphuric acid on windows to prevent them from frosting over, <fill in as many items as you can stand>. I'm talking about real history not the glossed over and cleaned up version seen in most historical fiction or the equally fictitious version masquerading as historical fact.
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Yes, death and suffering is everywhere, and not only in history. In the news. In nature. In real life here and now. There's no escaping it, whatever you read, watch or do. Yes, in some parts of the world there is less now than historically, but only in some, and only to a certain extent. I would not say the basic human nature has changed much at all, and I no longer have much hope that it ever will. Perhaps in a million years, if we last that long.