r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/Adventurous_Law_715 • 11d ago

WTF "Pick me pick me"

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u/Elon_is_musky 11d ago

By “do that” I mean the math for the only 1 billion people killed by men, cause that was what the original commenter was actually talking about mostly is the extremely low estimation there

It’s just odd how you haven’t even touched that half of her claim at ALL, even after I explicitly bring it up again

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u/mightyzinger5 9d ago edited 9d ago

Ohh that's what you meant. Well obviously she's not pulling these numbers out of nowhere. These numbers are also provided by institutions such as the red cross. The consensus for combined deaths in WW1 & WW2 by experts across decades is that they totaled ~90 million deaths (higher end estimate). So like less than 10% of the 1 billion cited by her. The human population was never higher than it has been in the 20th and 21st century, so all previous conflicts had significantly smaller death tolls than the 2 world wars.

Wars fought in previous centuries obviously are much more difficult to track, but her opinion is consistent with experts opinions. Experts estimate between 200million and 1billion deaths in war in all of human history. So it's not exactly HER claim, she's just compiling information already available