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Possibly not factual...
I've certainly read a few books that say this as gospel. Hasn't even crossed my mind that it might not be true! Will have to do some proper reading on it now.
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I'd be really interested in how you separate this out.
Just off the top of my head you've got to find control countries/societies which have both comparable economic health/lack of as well as war time experience.
Very much being an armchair phycologist here, but surely something like the violence and trauma from Vietnam much have had a knock-on for the levels of violence in the US?
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Likewise, it was only as I typed it out I thought, ‘hmm maybe this is bollocks’.
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Dramatic_Hammer
And the removal of lead from petrol (mild lead poisoning of developing brains leading to violence later in life).
Possibly not factual...