Even those tribal peoples extolled by anthropologists as especially “gentle” – for example, the Semai of Malaysia, the Kung of the Kalahari, and the Central Arctic Inuit – turn out to have murder rates that are, relative to population, comparable to Detroit, which has one of the highest murder rates in the United States.
(A titre de comparaison, au cours de la première moitié du XXe siècle, les deux Guerres mondiales ont causé un taux de mortalité en Europe à peine supérieur à 3 pour cent).