"Humanity is flourishing if we look at health, prosperity, safety, peace and happiness, and there are signs that all are improving. Attitudes to reason and science have made this the best age in which to have lived." [Based on the blurb from a BBC radio discussion programme]
Do you share this optimistic outlook?
Originally posted by @fmf[b]"Humanity is flourishing if we look at health, prosperity, safety, peace and happiness, and there are signs that all are improving. Attitudes to reason and science have made this the best age in which to have lived."[Based on the blurb from a BBC radio discussion programme]
Do you share this optimistic outlook?[/b]Anyone who cannot see that must be one of the following types
- do not know some basic history of the world and how life was in centuries gone by
- live in the outback somewhere cut off from the world
-- just plain stupid
- Christians waiting / hoping for the great tribulation
Originally posted by @whodeyYour stock in trade consists of the perceived ills of the world, but you are betrayed by your obvious delight in recounting them. What a happy time it must be in whodeyville.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2012/10/23/more_slaves_now_than_at_any_other_time_in_history.html
More slavery today than at any other time in history?
Wow.
Oh happy day.
Originally posted by @js357My stock? You mean the stock of the 27 million some slaves, not including the rampant sex trafficking in the world today.
Your stock in trade consists of the perceived ills of the world, but you are betrayed by your obvious delight in recounting them. What a happy time it must be in whodeyville.
Ok then, now stick you head back in the sand already.
Originally posted by @fmf[b]"Humanity is flourishing if we look at health, prosperity, safety, peace and happiness, and there are signs that all are improving. Attitudes to reason and science have made this the best age in which to have lived."[Based on the blurb from a BBC radio discussion programme]
Do you share this optimistic outlook?[/b]My optimism does not come from this world.
Originally posted by @whodeyYour angle here seems to be that you think JS357 was unaware of the sex trafficking problem.
My stock? You mean the stock of the 27 million some slaves, not including the rampant sex trafficking in the world today.
Ok then, now stick you head back in the sand already.
Does the world's sex trafficking problem, specifically, in your mind, negate all the things that give reason for optimism?
Originally posted by @fmfWhen reading the history of mankind in regards to slavery and looking at it today, it is rather hard to have optimism, but pretending it does not exist is absurd.
Your angle here seems to be that you think JS357 was unaware of the sex trafficking problem.
Does the world's sex trafficking problem, specifically, in your mind, negate all the things that give reason for optimism?
The truth often hurts.
Originally posted by @fmfMost everyone has hope in the world, whether it be in politics, their faith, or maybe just trying to escape it all via suicide, etc.
Perhaps there can be more substance to the weighing of what constitutes "hope in this world" - and what does not - than a mere fragment of facetious banter from the realm of U.S. retail politics?
Where do you place your hope?
