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. In Europe, your chance of being murdered is now less than one-tenth, and in some countries only one-fiftieth, of what it would have been had you lived 500 years ago.
甚至连那些被考古学家称赞为尤其“温和”的部族族群——比如马来西亚的瑟买人（Semai），非洲卡拉哈里（Kalahari）沙漠地区的坤族人（Kung）以及生活在北极圈中部地区的因纽特人——其谋杀数量相对于人口总量的比率来说都可以跟底特律——美国谋杀率最高的城市之一——不相上下。