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"better" doesn't mean "good".

• Consultant32452 7y ago
  Let's be really clear about scales here. Not just "better" but "the best it's ever been in the history of the world." The world we live in is an absolute miracle. For most of human history it was amazing if our children managed to survive the winter. My grandparents faced the very real prospect of dying from food scarcity. I can push a few buttons on my phone and a hot cooked meal will arrive at my doorstep in under an hour. Most of the diseases that were the cause of human death and misery aren't even on our radar, because we've cured them. I can go flip a switch on my wall and the room will be illuminated because literally tens of thousands of people have all worked together in relative harmony to make it possible. Our closest biological relatives, chimps, brutally rip apart their own infants and eat their brains as a matter of course. That's biological reality. That's your starting point. Everything past that is a gift. If we just want to say that we can imagine an even better life than the one we have today and we should work towards that.. I'm right there with you. But how can you look around you and say life isn't good? Not "good" compared to what situation that has ever existed in all of history?