Is the World Really Getting Worse?

[TJJJ]

I guess worse depends upon who is speaking.

How do you tell a Jew who was being hauled off to the camps that it is worse now?

How would you tell a gypsy in Stalins russia that it is worse now?

Relatively speaking.....

[Dichotomy Girl]

I'm glad to see we have some optimists!

In my opinion some things have stayed the same, some have gotten worse, and some have gotten better. And I personally believe that the good just might outweigh the bad. Some Thoughts:

1. Medical breakthroughs are pretty much awesome. Things that were a death sentence 100 years ago are now treatable. My Mom is a living breathing example of this. She had a very rare kind of cancer, it was considered inoperable, the 5 year survival rate was 0%, they gave her 6 months to a year. However, she got into an experiment program, and almost 4 years later she is not only alive but cancer free.

2. The Internet. Yes, like anything it has the ability to be used for evil, but it's also completely and totally amazing. It's helped transform our world (in a good way). How many things have happened for the good, because it got out on social media, or went viral, and the public outcry caused positive change? Through Micro-loans, we can help people we never in a million years would have come across. I guess, I just think the interconnectedness is pretty amazing.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by TJJJ

I guess worse depends upon who is speaking.

How do you tell a Jew who was being hauled off to the camps that it is worse now?

How would you tell a gypsy in Stalins russia that it is worse now?

Relatively speaking.....

That's comparing them to the world. The World implies globally not just isolated areas.

See it's not relatively speaking.

Let's put it all together, Holocausts, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf etc etc...Persecution of Christians, crime in the US, the potential for mass deaths through WMDs and on and on and on.

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

That's comparing them to the world. The World implies globally not just isolated areas.

See it's not relatively speaking.

Let's put it all together, Holocausts, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf etc etc...Persecution of Christians, crime in the US, the potential for mass deaths through WMDs and on and on and on.

Well, do you realize that we lost more men in the Civil war than these wars combined?

We lost 618,000 men from the US during the civil war. That was over 10% of all men from the US.

So is it better or worse?

Stalin killed more people in Russia than many of the wars killed. 40 million total. The only war that was worse was WW2 which they figure 66 mill died.

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-peop...n-kill-1111789

Yet they figure that the Mongol hordes wiped out over 40 million people in their escapades. This was during the 13th century. So are things getting better or worse? Seems to me that unregenerated man has the capacity to be totally degenerate!

http://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2011...e-mongols.html