Quote of the Day | 1103
Should we be worried that violence on a mass scale, of the kind we saw in the last century, will rear its head again?
I think we should worry. I don’t think we will necessarily see it on the same scale, but the violence that did take place was due to features that were found in human nature. They haven’t gone away and it’s possible that they could re-emerge. All the more reason why we should fortify the institutions that are designed to prevent that from happening, like free speech, rule of law and human rights.
Steven Pinker, in: ‘The violent dangers of ideology’
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