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Are American declining in moral?
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<blockquote data-quote="expos4ever" data-source="post: 77630597" data-attributes="member: 233757"><p>I understand that it might seem that way, but I doubt this is really true. At least when one looks at the big picture. Perhaps you mean something else than what I have inferred when you say "the world is getting crazier every day". If so, please set me straight.</p><p></p><p>As I have pointed out before, there is a powerful "availability" bias at work in our world - the news only reports the "crazy.bad" stuff and leaves "normal/good" stuff off the news. Example: do we ever hear / read this on the news?: <em>50,000 airplanes took off and landed today without a single fatality</em>? No, but we hear about each plane crash even though they are exceedingly rare. From Steven Prinker: <em>news sources could have run the headline “<strong>137K people escaped extreme poverty today” every day</strong> for <u>the past 25 years</u> (at least before Covid). So 1.25 billion people have escaped extr poverty, & no one knows. </em>Extreme poverty in the world is, thankfully, plummeting.</p><p></p><p>I suggest that the world, on average, and over reasonable timescales is getting better. Much better, in fact. Crime is down, women have more rights, people are living longer and healthier, literacy is up, war is way down, extreme poverty is way down. And on and on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="expos4ever, post: 77630597, member: 233757"] I understand that it might seem that way, but I doubt this is really true. At least when one looks at the big picture. Perhaps you mean something else than what I have inferred when you say "the world is getting crazier every day". If so, please set me straight. As I have pointed out before, there is a powerful "availability" bias at work in our world - the news only reports the "crazy.bad" stuff and leaves "normal/good" stuff off the news. Example: do we ever hear / read this on the news?: [I]50,000 airplanes took off and landed today without a single fatality[/I]? No, but we hear about each plane crash even though they are exceedingly rare. From Steven Prinker: [I]news sources could have run the headline “[B]137K people escaped extreme poverty today” every day[/B] for [U]the past 25 years[/U] (at least before Covid). So 1.25 billion people have escaped extr poverty, & no one knows. [/I]Extreme poverty in the world is, thankfully, plummeting. I suggest that the world, on average, and over reasonable timescales is getting better. Much better, in fact. Crime is down, women have more rights, people are living longer and healthier, literacy is up, war is way down, extreme poverty is way down. And on and on. [/QUOTE]
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