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>What you are living in is not safety. It is the illusion of safety Statistically, people are safer today than in the past, if you are looking at violent death
by objclxt 13y ago
>What you are living in is not safety. It is the illusion of safety
Statistically, people are safer today than in the past, if you are looking at violent death rates. It's really not an illusion. Life expectancies are higher not just because of scientific advances, but because we are simply less likely to die at the hands of others.
Putting aside the domestic manslaughter rate, over the past few decades people have been far less likely to die through war than at any other point over the past 3-4 centuries (if not longer, records pre the 1700s are unreliable).
What I think could be argued as an illusion is that this period of safety has been due to increased surveillance and espionage, especially domestic surveillance.
- oblique63 13y ago> What I think could be argued as an illusion is that this period of safety has been due to increased surveillance and espionage, especially domestic surveillance. Exactly. As we all should know by now, 'Correlation != Causation'. This increase in safety could just as easily be attributed to the Flynn Effect[1] as it can to spying. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
- ericd 13y agoThe nature of war for our country has changed completely, and quite a few people on the other side do die in our wars. It's not related to our espionage efforts.