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 '''2. In some life-worlds, homicide is one of the most common causes of death'''
-.1 Within the multiple realities of human experience, the mass media universe of news and entertainment stands out as an especially violence-prone one. The world as we know it is largely an imaginary world. In this imaginary world, homicide is the most common cause of death. Think of the news: school shootings, massacres, the killing of hostages, gruesome family tragedies, murder trials, executions. Think of fiction: the silence of the lambs, serial killers, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, or think of the series Breaking Bad, Dexter, the Netflex series on Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, or CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI NY. Murder is the most common cause of death in our common nightmarish conscience collective. (Why is that so and what functions does that fulfill? And does it reflect the statistical truth?)
+.1 Within the multiple realities of human experience, the mass media universe of news and entertainment stands out as an especially violence-prone one. The world as we know it is largely an imaginary world. In this imaginary world, homicide is the most common cause of death. Think of the news: school shootings, massacres, the killing of hostages, gruesome family tragedies, murder trials, executions. Think of fiction: the silence of the lambs, serial killers, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, or think of the series Breaking Bad, Dexter, the Netflex series on Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, or CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI NY. Murder is the most common cause of death in our common nightmarish conscience collective. (Why is that so and what functions does that fulfill? And does it reflect the statistical truth?) [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20910859In Murder, She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher's sleepy home town of Cabot Cove has a rate of 1,490 murders per million.]
 .2 Since 2006, the number of deaths from conflict and terrorism has risen significantly, reaching 150,500 deaths in 2016 (which is a 143 percent increase since 2006) - largely a result of conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East.
-.3 In the USA according to the CDC in Atlanta, '''homicide was the No. 1 killer of black men between the ages of 15 and 34''' in 2011. Accidents ranked second, and suicide third (15 and 24 years), while heart disease ranked third for men 24-34. *[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/24/juan-williams/juan-williams-no-1-cause-death-african-americans-1/ Juan Williams: Murder is No 1 cause of death]. Similar: [https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/19Geronimus.pdf Arline Geronimus (1998): For 15 -19 year old African American males in major metropolitan areas homicide is the leading cause of death].
+.3 In the USA according to the CDC in Atlanta, '''homicide was the No. 1 killer of black men between the ages of 15 and 34''' in 2011. Accidents ranked second, and suicide third (15 and 24 years), while heart disease ranked third for men 24-34. *[http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/24/juan-williams/juan-williams-no-1-cause-death-african-americans-1/ Juan Williams: Murder is No 1 cause of death]. Similar: [https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/19Geronimus.pdf Arline Geronimus (1998): For 15 -19 year old African American males in major metropolitan areas homicide is the leading cause of death]. For the Rohingya of Myanmar and white farmers in South Africa, things look similarly bleak. Where it is not only the moral quality, but also the quantity and frequency of homicide that is a cause of concern, violence is sometimes (seen as) genocidal.
-That said, murder is not so much a quantitative as a qualitative cause for concern. There is something in the QUALITY OF THE ACT that we see as deeply irritating and reprehensible. In other words:
+== The Anthropology of Homicide ==
+. The male human animal is a schizophrenic killer. He likes to think of himself as a peaceful being, but indulges in the extermination of living organisms - including of his own species.
+*Georgiev (2013): Humans are a highly aggressive species in comparison to other animals, probably as a result of an unusually high benefit-to-cost ratio for intra-specific aggression. This conclusion is supported by frequent and widespread occurrence of male-male coalitionary killing and by male-female sexual coercion. Sex differences in violent aggression in humans and other species probably evolved by sexual selection and reflect different optimal competitive strategies for males and females.
+Genocide as a specific kind of coalitionary intergroup aggression that occurs when attackers are able to kill at high gain and low cost to themselves. Examples.
 '''2. Murder is, in other words, not only an exceptionally rare event, it is also an event that is considered as being ethically/morally exceptionally bad.'''
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-. Genocide can be explained. It can be explained as a specific kind of coalitionary intergroup aggression that occurs when attackers are able to kill at high gain and low cost to themselves. Examples.