06/09/05

Democratic freedom (liberal democracies) is a solution to war, internal violence, democide, famine, and national impoverishment. Thus, fostering freedom is a way to global peace and human security. The more unfree, or totalitarian a regime, the more its rulers will murder its people, and is likely to make war. Such thug regimes have killedseveral times more people than have wars. Thus, on the scale of bodies, thugs are more to be feared than war...

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from Freedom's Peace, by R.J. Rummel


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp