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"the world is a dangerous place and becoming more so." Are you basing this statement on a general feeling or on a specific data-based metric? The military in
by cosmobot 9y ago
"the world is a dangerous place and becoming more so."
Are you basing this statement on a general feeling or on a specific data-based metric?
The military industrial complex greatly benefits from this common sentiment, but by most all quantitative measurements the world continues growing slowly safer, average lifespans increase, etc. While years-long aberrations exist (e.g. civil wars), the overall trend is very clearly antithetical to your statement.
- DontGiveTwoFlux 9y agoThere’s a balance to strike between the fear monger if news cycle and the Steven Pinker-esque wave of progress. As Pinker notes, progress is not monotonicly increasing. While it is true that things have gotten better on average across the world, we should be wary of those who do not champion enlightenment ideals, particularly in autocratic China with the apparently life term of Xi Jinpeng. We should be wary that those without our interests at heart don’t overtake us.