Are We Getting Nicer? By Nicolas D. Kristof
Even though to many right now it may seem like the world is in chaos, when you look at are time from a historical context, we have made a lot of progress in "human decency"at least. There is less discrimination based on sex and race, and less violence (in war or otherwise). Either though civilian deaths and genocide still happen, now there is a general acknowledgment that it is wrong, as opposed to when it was just a fact of war. The reasons for this moral progress may include growing sympathy and education and declining chauvinism.
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