"Admitting error and addressing solutions is civilized. Guess we aren't even close yet".???
I think there's enough evidence in history to show that, by and large, the human race is not civilized. The world probably would have been technologically advanced enough to have computers 1000 years ago if humanity wasn't always concentrating on destroying itself.
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I think the figure of 151,000 Iraqi deaths might be unrealistically low.