Originally posted by josephwPresumably this means ~ by the same reasoning ~ that you don't think it's possible to quantify whether life is getting worse over time "due to all the vagaries and variables associated with living".
Truthfully, I don 't think it's possible to quantify whether life is getting better over time due to all the vagaries and variables associated with living.
Originally posted by josephwYou just contradicted yourself.
Truthfully, I don 't think it's possible to quantify whether life is getting better over time due to all the vagaries and variables associated with living.
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..... but billions will expire before any real quality of life will be experienced by the vast majority.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI have ~ several times. And in some detail too. We are on the 23rd page of a thread to which I have contributed dozens of times, on-topic and concisely, and always engaging the content and questions of the people I've been debating with. If you still don't know what the indicators are that can tell us about the increasing or decreasing quality of life in the world, and you're too lazy to read the thread, then perhaps you should look the topic up on the net.
and I suggest you answer the question.
Originally posted by FMFSo you cannot say in what units quality of life is measured in, thanks. I would suggest that your so called 'empirically', based quality of life indicators (whatever they are for you seem unable to elucidate anything in their regard) are bogus for I am reminded of a women who traversed the Australian outback and who said that she never felt so alive staring up at the stars with naught but her camel for company. I wonder how the mysterious factors that led to your 'quality of life indicators', would fare in her circumstances.
I have ~ several times. And in some detail too. We are on the 23rd page of a thread to which I have contributed dozens of times, on-topic and concisely, and always engaging the content and questions of the people I've been debating with. If you still don't know what the indicators are that can tell us about the increasing or decreasing quality of life in the wor ...[text shortened]... d, and you're too lazy to read the thread, then perhaps you should look the topic up on the net.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI am reminded of a women who traversed the Australian outback and who said that she never felt so alive staring up at the stars with naught but her camel for company. I wonder how the mysterious factors that led to your 'quality of life indicators', would fare in her circumstances.
This woman you reminded of, presumably she was literate if she wrote her account and you read it.
Here's a question you ignored on page 20. Perhaps you might address it now? Do you recognize the dramatic growth of literacy and numeracy in the last 100 or so years as being a result of increased provision of and access to education and do you think this increase in growth of literacy and numeracy is an indicator that, in this matter, the world has become a better place?
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Originally posted by josephwBecause you are predisposed to see the world in a negative way, and the only evidence that registers with you is that which supports these preconceptions.
Good God, how do I get myself into these debates?
Rhetorically speaking.
Where do I start? This is so weird. We both live in the same world! Why do we see things so differently?
Note that you have not attempted to acknowledge or respond to my evidence on the staggering improvement in child mortality in just the last 30 years.
You make statements which are patently untrue and which you cannot even attempt to substantiate and then ignore all responses which challenge this. So your position does not develop and improve. You just complain about it and make out like it is our fault that we don't accept your vague assertions that everything is destined to get worse, or not get better.
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Originally posted by josephwIt could be argued that things are getting better, until when? The next plague or world war?
It could be argued that things are getting better, until when? The next plague or world war?
How is it getting better when in a hundred years from now not a single one of us will be here to see it?
The human race is cycling through the same patterns generation after generation. It's not getting better. Better today, worse tomorrow. Then repeat.
Is your argument really that things aren't getting better because something bad might happen in the future? Really?
How is it getting better when in a hundred years from now not a single one of us will be here to see it?
I have read this a dozen times and haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about.
If you mean that the posters here will be dead in 100 years time (probably true) then what bearing does this have on whether things are getting better?
Or are you suggesting that the human race is going extinct in 100 years? If so, please post your evidence for this assertion?