Pinker and Wright seem to indicate that an interpretation of social history finding that violence is diminished in the presence of absolutist state power is a consequence of the inability of individuals to get away with murder, etc, and further, that trade and communications progress create a non-zero sum relationship that is reason enough not to club one's trading partner to death.
Democratic party leaders seem to care more about Latin American citizens, Africans, Chinese and anyone else on Earth (except Russians) over citizens of the United States. The Democrat Party is regarded by many U.S. citizens as pursuing zero-sum strategies with a world of illegal aliens seeking to migrate illegally to the United States. Democrats say that America is a nation of immigrants so its o.k. to be here illegally. Several 2020 presidential candidates advocate lax border security or open borders, though opposite political opinion is that illegal immigrants hurt citizen economic and physical security and, alternatively, that the nation already has 320 million people and won't be improved with the addition of tens or hundreds of millions more.
Democrats might reply that the environment will benefit with forests conserved, pollution reduced, and housing cheaper with a hundred million illegal immigrants each willing to raise five kids per family if they can only fulfill their dream of paying taxes. Environmentalists might be skeptics regarding the value to helping restore ecospheric decay tens or hundreds of millions of illegal aliens would bring. Would it be easier to solve ecospheric restoration challenges with a population of 500 million than 320 million?
Violence in the world may be reduced with the ubiquitous Orwellian state electronic surveillance and tracking presence made possible with smart phones, tracking chips, cameras, rft devices etc. Yet reduced as well would be the opportunity for political dissent as corporatism forces their will upon the world. Those violating corporate polices will be fired, marginalized and made to count pine needles in remote Canadian provinces.
Fundamentally the new morality is not so new. It is the modern Sodom and Gomorrah ethical ideal of universal conformity and familiarity under a benevolent dictatorship of the proletariat. It should be possible to keep the peace without institutionalizing the mindless violence of repressive state socialist-elitist rule by decree which is an opportunistic expropriator of a fortuitous historical development of the social dialectic.
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