The pre-industrial past was, by our standards, incredibly violent.
He was one of the company's top editors when Marvel decided it would stop submitting its product to the Comics Code Authority, a board of censors that enforced largely arbitrary standards around violent or sexual content, adopting an in-house ratings system instead.
Even by the standards of his violent and radicalised area, Mr Mehsud is a very bad egg.
In the end, it isn't very useful to hold ISIS to the expectations and standards of other violent groups.
Democracy is holding up, but polls show people to be deeply dissatisfied with its failure to bring jobs, improve living standards or tackle violent crime.
Even by Iraq's violent standards in recent years — in which mammoth explosions have become a possibility of everyday life in Baghdad — the plot discovered by the Iraqi government on Tuesday would have been devastating if carried out.
All his life, he wrote, he had been "eccentric according to normal standards": I had violent passions for various pursuits usually taking the form of collecting: tools; names of birds; marbles; catching butterflies, snakes, turtles etc; buying books on Napoleon.
These results run counter to standard models relating violent video game play to aggressive behavior, highlighting the difficulty in anticipating the effects of newer, more immersive technology.
Friday afternoon saw the FA charge Hazard over the incident, insisting the standard sanction for violent conduct was "clearly insufficient" in the Belgian's case.
The Petits, who stood out as a successful and beloved family in the comfortable, largely white town of Cheshire, seemed utterly removed from the standard trajectory of violent crime.
