Why is there such a lack of value to a human life in today's society?

[RGrizzzz]

It isn't that the world is getting worse, it's that we are all much more aware of negative news in places we didn't use to hear from. The internet and overall more connectedness of everyone makes it seem like crime is higher and society is failing. Before, few on this board outside of Kansas would have even heard about a Sherriff's deputy in Kansas. By almost any metric, violent crime has plummeted since the 90s.

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Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/

I completely agree that we are inundated with news of "scary things". We now know every bad thing that happens. I feel like it started in the late 80s when I was a kid. The local Philly news in unwatchable because the first third is the daily murder/crime report. We wonder why our kids have anxiety.....

 

[BenA]

I agree that we are seeing more of the negative news from around the world, but it seems with that comes more tolerance of it or at least people are more accustomed to it. There's always been evil. Now, more of it is out in the open and accepted.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Go into any major city and go to certain areas. You can see society crumbling right before your eyes. It was wasn’t that way prior to say the 60’s

 

[Hoytvectrix]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."





- Socrates, 400 B.C.

 

[West_Fork]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."





- Socrates, 400 B.C.

Ouch, that really hits home 2425 years later.

 

[BenA]

The children now dress up like dogs and cats, barking and hissing at each other in the school hallways; they shoot each other in the classrooms. Children utter profanity at each other and elders. They rule the house because parents refuse to discipline them.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Let’s send Socrates to East Point in Atlanta. Words would fail him

 

[letemgrow]

The loss of respect for others is a good starting point.

That starts in the home. My kids threw a fit one time where they stormed upstairs and slammed the door....the rest is history.

I'd also be willing to bet that they'll never be involved in those "mostly peaceful" protests.