Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "TED"
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Drake Doragon
Yes.....all those negative things are still happening but that's not the point. You're applying individual narratives and then applying it universally. Pinker's point, and he has data to back it up, is that things have been getting better over history and particularly over the last 50 years. He didn't say that things are now PERFECT. He is saying that for the overall planet, things are getting better. As bad as the Korean War was, it's still not nearly as devastating, for the entire planet, than WW2. It's a matter of scale.
Hopefully, those things continue to improve over the next 10 years so that the number of people being bombed, tortured, abused or whatever else is LESS than what it is, today. That would be a good thing. Just as it is that the number of people being bombed, tortured, abused or whatever is less than it was 50 years ago is also a good thing.
Only the most abject pessimist would say that it's not a good thing and only the most abject optimist would say that things are perfect. Both are seeing thing though a lens of their own making and are refusing to deal with reality.
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