Re: Just a thought

From: markmohrfield_at_...
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:34:29 -0000

> markmohrfield_at_z... wrote:
> ...
> > While not too many people will be killed in a single raid,
remember
> > that they happen quite often, once every couple of years at lest.
> > That's going to add up.
> ...
>
>
> To a slightly larger small number.
> A clan population of 1000 means about 30 deaths per year.
> One death per year in cattle raids is lost in the noise: less often
> than an 'Orlanthi never'.

As Jeffrey Kyer pointed out, its going to be rather more than that. I think that we sometimes forget just how violent preindustrial societies are. In David Brin's "A Transparent Society" he mentions that "some researchers estimate between 20 to 30 percent of males in preindustrial societies died at the hands of other males."

                                               Mark Mohrfield