>Today we in the developed western world freak out about 60 people dying, and a single 9/11 is a world shaking event. Keyword being Western - if the killings d

>Today we in the developed western world freak out about 60 people dying, and a single 9/11 is a world shaking event. Keyword being Western - if the killings don't happen there they somehow don't count. Around 400,000 people died in Syrian war - that's 2% dead count out of 20 million of pre-war population; pretty close to what you mentioned is WW2 level. >Scaled up to present day population that would be more than 231,000,000 killed The fact that we by random chance managed to avoid a global war in the last 70 years doesn't mean that when it finally hits the death tally won't be 231,000,000. In fact, I'd say it's going to be much higher.