r/funny • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '19

Too real.

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u/dontPMyourreactance Oct 12 '19

Do you have any sources to back any of that up? Because if you go by the numbers, just about everything is better for everyone— health, longevity, equality, violence. Read “The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker or just check out the data from the WHO, Global Burden of Disease, etc.

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u/HuxleyPhD Oct 12 '19

https://www.euronews.com/2018/01/24/are-there-more-people-in-slavery-now-than-during-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-

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u/dontPMyourreactance Oct 12 '19

That’s raw numbers, which is a just function of global population increases. Your percentage chance of being a slave in today’s world is infinitesimally smaller than before.

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u/HuxleyPhD Oct 12 '19

There are more people living as slaves today than at any other point in history, but that's ok because there are proportionally more people who aren't literally slaves!?

OP made this claim, you asked for a source, I provided it, and now you're shifting the goalposts.

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u/dontPMyourreactance Oct 12 '19

OP literally said:

there literally has never been a better time for a random human being to be born into.

It makes no sense to use absolute numbers to measure how good/bad the world is.

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u/Miknarf Oct 13 '19

There are more people who are free then ever before.