Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children

[El Chimpo]

this world is going down the toilet and fast

sadly, its been like this for a while...


only does it take something real sick like this for us to see it

 

[tkotom]

This is horrible but the world is NOT getting worse.

We have more rights and benefits for all people than ever.

Less murder, rape, slavery and genocide than ever. Yes we have wars and massacres but it is still less than ever in history.

Not s great consolation but a fact it remains.

 

[diazisawesome**]

fuckin horrible

 

[Big Sissy]

I've never cared for this mantra.

To be fair, IMO, many first world countries are first world for the simple reason that they value human life more. We're comparing apples to oranges, here, with the Connecticut/China attacks today, because the latter didn't involve 27 fatalities (including 3/4 of the shooter's family), but beyond that, one of the reasons you don't hear about this stuff may have to do with the fact that the Chinese themselves don't become as enraged. For example, in the past decade alone, something like over 3x the Chinese miners died in mining accidents than the USA had miners die in the entire previous century. Currently, they account for roughly 80% of the world's coal miner deaths, yet produce only 35% of the world's coal. Where is their outrage? Their government is autocratic; nothing prevents them from imposing stricter safety protocol, as we have, to address this problem; nor can it be explained away by totalitarianism. The Chinese government answers to its people just as the American government does to it. The ugly truth one may deduce is that they care less about human loss than they do about profit relative to the too often vilified, "evil" Americans. Look at the bones in the China wall. Some problems are cultural; as has been pointed out in some other threads, today, there are examples of countries with gun laws no less lax than the USA's, but they don't experience the same violent crime or this phenomenon of indiscriminate, mass public executions.

Furthermore, third world countries tend to lack the same communication and news services that first world countries enjoy. This is inherent to the economic differences. Stop blaming third world attitudes on first worlders. Not everything is our fault.

"The Chinese government answers to its people"? Are you serious? If you speak up you get disappeared.

 

[Rhood]

You take nukes out of the equation and we are living during the safest time in human history.

Not quite yet.
You need to take religion out of the equation and then we are living during the safest time in human history.

 

[Banana Peel**]

Not quite yet.
You need to take religion out of the equation and then we are living during the safest time in human history.

Religion is one of the few things keeping us sane in such a horrible time. Atheists always crawl out of the woodwork when something like this happens to try and cover their arses by blaming things on religion when in fact if these killers were religious in the first place they'd not have done such horrible things.

 

[seatea]

Religion is one of the few things keeping us sane in such a horrible time. Atheists always crawl out of the woodwork when something like this happens to try and cover their arses by blaming things on religion when in fact if these killers were religious in the first place they'd not have done such horrible things.

Agreed. It is a well known fact that religious people never kill.

 

[xilliun]

Religion is one of the few things keeping us sane in such a horrible time. Atheists always crawl out of the woodwork when something like this happens to try and cover their arses by blaming things on religion when in fact if these killers were religious in the first place they'd not have done such horrible things.