> Humans can render other humans unrecognizable with a rock.
They are much less likely to.
We have instinctive repulsion to violence, especially extending it (e.g. if the rock does not kill at the first blow).
It is much easier to kill with a gun (and even then people need training to be willing to do it), and easier still to fire a missile at people you cannot even see.
Than throwing a face punch or a rock? You should check public schools.
Than killing with bare hands or a rock, which I believe is still pretty uncommon in schools.
GP didn't talk about killing
Extreme violence then? With rocks, clubs of bare hands? I was responding to "render other humans unrecognizable with a rock" which I am pretty sure is uncommon in schools.
Render unrecognizable? Yeah, I guess that could be survivable, but it's definitely lethal intent.
Not in public schools in the British sense. I assume it varies in public schools in the American sense, and I am guessing violence sufficient to render someone unrecognisable is pretty rare even in the worst of them.
Not at scale.
Armies scale up.
It’s like the original massive scale organization.
Scaling an army of rock swingers is a lot more work than giving one person an AK47 (when all who would oppose them have rocks).
(Thankfully in the US we worship the 2A and its most twisted interpretation. So our toddlers do shooter drills. /s)
You are discounting the complexity of the logistics required for an AK47 army. You need ammo, spare parts, lubricant and cleaning tools. You need a factory to build the weapon, and churn out ammunition.
Or, gather a group of people, tell them to find a rock, and go bash the other sides head.
Complexity of logistics applies to any large army. The single biggest limiting factor for most of history has been the need to either carry your own food, or find it in the field. This is why large-scale military violence requires states.
> You need ammo, spare parts, lubricant and cleaning tools.
The ak-47 famously only needs the first item in that list.
That being the key to its popularity.
Brutal murder is low tech.