Despite the contrary, this world is getting worse - not better - in just about every way.

[chrisbigman]

You name it - shootings, rapes, corruptions, scandals, sexualized propoganda, etc... People continue to do these things because it's honored/praised or forced. Unless we wake up and take a stand, it will only get worse. Not waking up puts you in a very vulnerable state of mind up until it's too late, and we all need to wake up. No one person can do it by themselves. Certain people have been manipulating most of us for a long time, and a few of us are waking up to what they are doing. All of us need to wake up and make these people be held accountable for what they did and turn around the damage they've caused.

[Waffles731]

Also the its not the most mass shootings in history, That's the 1920s the golden age of violent bank robbery

[tortelina]

This is incomprehensible and paranoid.

[Dousj]

Thats history as a whole, there's always evil people and there's always that one group that won't listen to reason and can only be responded to w/ violence. Rape, corruption, scandal, sexualizing has always been going on since civilization, as long as there are people, there will be bad people who do bad/evil things. You can't stop them all, all you can do is try to lessen the frequency and be the change you want to see. That can kill off those crazy folks that can only be met w/ violence, like cutting out a tumor.

[tenchu11]

You've never read "the world is a safer place". It literally is compared to 100s to thousands of years ago where countries if not people would be wiped out by raiders. The 30 years ear and Nepoleanic Wars made WWi and WWII look like child's play in length and collateral damage

[bluenose1872]

The world's in its death throes. The version that will support our species anyway. It's came to this point by greed. Weak, twisted people who hate the human race enough to milk it and exploit it to it's destruction and their own. It was always said we were agents of our own destruction. It's true. The human race is more like a virus than a mammal living in harmony with it's environment. Won't be long now I reckon. Global events can spin on a dime or take millenia. This will happen quick.

[TheSpartan]

You're actually completely wrong. The world is historically getting vastly better in pretty much every way. War deaths, infant mortality, extreme poverty, disease deaths, pollution, murder, slavery, and genocide-related deaths have all fallen drastically worldwide. Even crime in most developed countries has fallen by half over the past twenty years.

[SIGguy]

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

People have been saying stuff like this since the beginning of time, but the fact is the world is a safer place than it has ever been, and evil is far less prevalent today than is was 50, 100, 1,000 years ago.

[chrisbigman]

I disagree, but I appreciate your opinion.

[SIGguy]

The only thing that gets worse is the misuse of our environment.

[Opinion Owner]

@SIGguy I totally agree, that's the thing that breaks my heart. The other stuff QA mentions is just a total lack of historical perspective.

[TheSpartan]

@SIGguy even that's getting better in a lot of ways (in Western Europe and America, at least). Obviously China has gotten worse there.

[SIGguy]

@TheSpartan Then please explain why tides are getting higher and snow has being coming later in the year, if we even get snow.

[Opinion Owner]

@SIGguy Tides are getting higher because the snow caps are melting, as they have been since the last ice age. The planet has gone through cycles of warming and cooling for eons. Why would we expect that to be any different now?

[zagor]

The murder rate through most of history was much higher than it is today. And during most of that time there were no guns.

[chrisbigman]

I'm not necessarily talking confirmed violence. I'm also talking behavior.

[Anonymous]

Liberal idiocy prevents the taking of real action. Destroyed civilization is the only result we'll see because of it.

[SIGguy]

Real action? I'd love to see what solutions conservatives have, because, ya know, they're so grounded in reality.

[Entity]

You cannot unify against unknown enemies for vague causes.