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Land o' Lakes
World is Safer than Ever
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XXL
Re: World is Safer than Ever
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#Trump4Treason
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the world is pretty safe relative to decades past.
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~the original p.tiddy~
Re: World is Safer than Ever
yep, it's true
It's just thanks to cell phones and social media and just media in general that we are able to see bad things like never before.
You would think we are headed toward anarchy, the end of humanity, but it is the exact opposite.
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Step 11
Re: World is Safer than Ever
y'all need to check Doomsday's Watch.
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Fresh Kid Turned Rotten
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Life goes on.
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It's weird to use stats to say the world is safe, as well as to equate what stats you believe measure 'world safeness' with proof that there's not something wrong in the world right now. We'll see.
-Smak
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Land o' Lakes
Re: World is Safer than Ever
Originally Posted by ILLsmak
It's weird to use stats to say the world is safe, as well as to equate what stats you believe measure 'world safeness' with proof that there's not something wrong in the world right now. We'll see.
-Smak
Presence of war? Crime rates? Violence against minorities? There's tons of statistics out there.
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A humble prophet
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Originally Posted by sammichoffate
Presence of war? Crime rates? Violence against minorities? There's tons of statistics out there.
I briefly went through the stats of the first link, and they are complete bs. I don't know how they're counting war deaths, but they're doing it really badly.
And yeah, the murder rate (in England) was not higher (likely lower) in 1775 than it is now, and the State was minuscule in comparison to today (i.e. things like police didn't exist then). Imagine what England would be like today if you got rid of the police, the millions of security cameras, the hi-tech spying, and all the modern conveniences people now have to distract themselves with.
Such comparisons are disingenuous tbh. Something has clearly become less safe when we now a few hundred thousand (increasingly armed) minions of the State, employed at all times, to keep the peace, just to keep homicide rates the same as they were almost 300 years ago.
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Land o' Lakes
Re: World is Safer than Ever
Originally Posted by Dresta
I briefly went through the stats of the first link, and they are complete bs. I don't know how they're counting war deaths, but they're doing it really badly.
And yeah, the murder rate (in England) was not higher (likely lower) in 1775 than it is now, and the State was minuscule in comparison to today (i.e. things like police didn't exist then). Imagine what England would be like today if you got rid of the police, the millions of security cameras, the hi-tech spying, and all the modern conveniences people now have to distract themselves with.
Such comparisons are disingenuous tbh. Something has clearly become less safe when we now a few hundred thousand (increasingly armed) minions of the State, employed at all times, to keep the peace, just to keep homicide rates the same as they were almost 300 years ago.
I agree, that's not much of a comparison when you don't take context into the equation. I honestly would compare today's violence to post-WWII because of how fked up everything was with all the Empires/Third Reichs/Communism, etc. It's just showing how the sheep are overreacting imo though; we're healthier and living longer than ever before and the global population growth isn't stagnating for a long time. If anything, handling old age pensions and social programs will be a tougher issue than surviving police brutality or freedom to hold firearms.
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A humble prophet
Re: World is Safer than Ever
Originally Posted by sammichoffate
I agree, that's not much of a comparison when you don't take context into the equation. I honestly would compare today's violence to post-WWII because of how fked up everything was with all the Empires/Third Reichs/Communism, etc. It's just showing how the sheep are overreacting imo though; we're healthier and living longer than ever before and the global population growth isn't stagnating for a long time. If anything, handling old age pensions and social programs will be a tougher issue than surviving police brutality or freedom to hold firearms.
But the two things are linked: dealing with unsustainable pension and social welfare programs will be a big problem, no doubt, but it will be when such privileges are withdrawn (when there isn't enough money left), that the real underlying problems will come to the forefront. What tells the strength of a society and civil order isn't how well it functions in times of plenty (because almost any order will be stable in such times), but how it manages in periods of acute distress and hardship.
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Land o' Lakes
Re: World is Safer than Ever
Originally Posted by Dresta
But the two things are linked: dealing with unsustainable pension and social welfare programs will be a big problem, no doubt, but it will be when such privileges are withdrawn (when there isn't enough money left), that the real underlying problems will come to the forefront. What tells the strength of a society and civil order isn't how well it functions in times of plenty (because almost any order will be stable in such times), but how it manages in periods of acute distress and hardship.
Agreed, it's a problem that will creep up on the world in just a few decades when world populations will be getting older and older. We're already seeing it in Japan, China, and Germany; yet the US politicians would rather focus on these smoke and mirror political tactics using fear and paranoia.
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Another stabbing today in France.
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You are amazing
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If USA hadn't made certain enemies with sand people the world would be actually safest it has ever been.
But you can't call something safe when you can get stabbed randomly or blowned up to pieces by some retard thinking his religion has any truth to it
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Re: World is Safer than Ever
Originally Posted by SexSymbol
If USA hadn't made certain enemies with sand people the world would be actually safest it has ever been.
But you can't call something safe when you can get stabbed randomly or blowned up to pieces by some retard thinking his religion has any truth to it
This and its happening quite frequently now. There seems to be an attack every week.
Actually, an attack every day.
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