Let me put more concrete, recent evidences that we value human life more, not less. Black lives matter. By any standard, it's clear racial discrimination has

Let me put more concrete, recent evidences that we value human life more, not less. Black lives matter. By any standard, it's clear racial discrimination has gotten better over the years (it's still nowhere near good enough, but better than in the past, even only by small relative amount), as there's no doubt police brutality has been worse in the past. But why are we outraging now ? Each single death now matters more now, because each injustice has much higher chance of getting broadcast and shared widely. What would have been ignored and silently covered up are now seeing the eyes of the world, and the direct consequence of that is the enormous movement. New Tsunami Sea Wall in Japan. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/mar/09/after-the-tsunami-japan-sea-walls-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/mar/09/after-... https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-japan-seawalls/ https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-japan-seawalls/ Whether you agree that's a good idea or not, you can't deny the fact that now Japan is spending tremendous amount of money to protect the lives of relatively small number of people, and it had a popular support in Japan, meaning Japanese were more than happy to spend tons of money to protect their fellow citizens.