World is Safer than Ever

[QUOTE=9erempiree]Another stabbing today in France.[/QUOTE]

If this was just the 80s or early 90s you wouldnt know about this, even if you somehow found out you wouldnt afford to be on your pay per minute (~2$) 14.4 modem to horribly slowly locate a forum & discuss it and blame Islam/Muslims the entire day & then go to ****** or liveleak etc & fap & learn all about Islam from only ISIS snuff videos... you would be broke... reality is you wouldnt do this, hence you wouldnt be able to become such a ***ed up ignorant racist islamophob you are at the moment... because back then all you would have was books & people to learn from, the koran and/or perhaps muslim neighbours around you to get actual knowledge by facts, socializing & real life in person experience to have the logic, maturity & ration enough to know what Islam (or any religion) really is so you can easily differentiate between a psycho/criminal/lunatic who just so happened to be born muslim (or any religion) once upon a time and a sane muslim (or any religion)........ I bet you would hence be a better person aswell, be a better person to talk to / share knowledge with, even basketball since you would also learn what real basketball was & real Lakers basketball was & became a fan of the efficient unselfish non-chucking-shotjacking non-Kobesque true alphas like Magic/Bird.... and oh, as a Laker fan you would be also be bowing down to a muslim player, oops, arguable GOAT, Kareem...... :)

[QUOTE=sammichoffate]Presence of war? Crime rates? Violence against minorities? There's tons of statistics out there.[/QUOTE]

the issue is, to me, is your argument is "The world is safer than ever." We can only imagine, due to context, this is you and/or other people saying that the world is fine/better despite the things that are happening. Because of that, I don't believe violence against minorities stats matter. You can statistically say "These are the positives of today" and we may agree. However, to go from there and say, therefore... because of those things, it doesn't matter if someone blows up the Boston Marathon or there is a coup(fakecoup?) in Turkey.

It's like if the President got assassinated and people came in like... well, let's be real, it's been so long since that's happened and tbh we are winning the war on drugs. Or, a second thing, imagine if people kept trying to assassinate the president and kept getting foiled. Like, they kept getting guns and getting there, but people ended up shooting them or detaining them. Wouldn't that mean the world in fact isn't 'safer than ever?' Even though, statistically, it would show that we are doing well to keep people from committing the act.

The last and most hilarious part, to me, is that people believe that before the explosion of the internet ... like in 1990 we didn't have news... nobody would be upset about the events that have transpired. It would be something "you didn't even hear about." That's nonsense. If anything, some people might have not watched the world news and read the newspaper, and now they are able to see it, but to act like that info would be hidden is superluls.

Or are people saying it's because of forums? Well, like dudes didn't have coffee together and be like hmm... can you believe the shit that happened in the news?

-Smak