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Originally Posted by tater
Murder was FAR more common in early human history than now. An insanely high homicide rate per year is now on the order of 0.03% per year.
For an average life span of ~35 years (spitball estimate for average human lifespan since we became Homo sapiens. It's probably high, lol.) that's around a 1% chance to death by homicide. Studies of paleolithic cultures that were extant into the 20th century showed that their lifetime death rate to homicide was 20-30%.
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True but then banishment, blood feuds and weregild's became the cost of murder as neolithic hunter-gatherers created early static societies and the first agriculture based communities. Placing a social cost on murder facilitated the order and stability that farming needed to thrive. God need not apply; community self-interest demanded that anti-social action was met with some sort of community sponsored sanction.