There is so much terror going on in the world

Melisandre121

Am I the only one who can't keep up with what's going on where?

Mister Vain

I just tune out.

Tugboats

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Am I the only one who can't keep up with what's going on where?

Isis stuff is shot in the Nevada desert. It's American propaganda

catbear

Statistically war fatality has decreased significantly since 1945.

Crunchienut

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Am I the only one who can't keep up with what's going on where?

No, IS, Boko Haram, and I'm sure we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg

Sheep Lover

Someone will get hurt with all this carry on

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It has been so for millennia. We just have mass coverage by media in real time nowadays.
Relax, it's nothing new.

kneemos

70 million killed in the second world war...just as a comparison.

Ruu

24hr news, don't turn on the telly that much here.

AndonHandon

Russia are still cnuts.

MythicalMadMan

They want you to be scared that way you wont ask any questions about all the conspiracies.

Capt'n Midnight

catbear wrote: »

Statistically war fatality has decreased significantly since 1945.

even when you include Korea, Vietnam, Nigeria, Iran-Iraq , Congo Wars it's still diminishing.

The big difference is how much time the media spends promoting terrorism. A lot more people including journalists might be alive if the media had just reported that ISIS had killed them rather than keep showing pictures and reports of exactly what happened.

IMHO Facebook are pure scum and they should be put on trial for being "accessories after the fact"

Iranoutofideas

AndonHandon wrote: »

Russia are still cnuts.

Yeah, look at what they've done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria in the past ten years whlle waging their war of terror.

Oh wait...

catbear

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

even when you include Korea, Vietnam, Nigeria, Iran-Iraq , Congo Wars it's still diminishing.

The big difference is how much time the media spends promoting terrorism. A lot more people including journalists might be alive if the media had just reported that ISIS had killed them rather than keep showing pictures and reports of exactly what happened.

IMHO Facebook are pure scum and they should be put on trial for being "accessories after the fact"

Interesting although I would say 'don't shoot the messenger'. I think suicide and obesity related diseases are the big killers in modern societies.

mad muffin

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Am I the only one who can't keep up with what's going on where?

Just think of it this way.

Every minute of every hour of every day. Somewhere around the world there is:

Someone getting:

Murdered
Raped
Assaulted
Beaten to with in an inch of their life
Human trafficked
Children being molested and raped repeatedly
Parents looking for their missing children
Dogs and humans being burned alive
Women stoned to death
Not to mention all the other vile stuff humans do to each other and to animals too.

We are worse than animals.

AndonHandon

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

Yeah, look at what they've done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria in the past ten years whlle waging their war of terror.

Oh wait...

Ukraine. There is a region called Crimea which they have violently seized.

PizzamanIRL

And what are they trying to achieve by all the senseless killing?

MarkAnthony

Not everyone is armed yet, as soon as they are all crime, everywhere, will stop.

Hibernosaur

AndonHandon wrote: »

Ukraine. There is a region called Crimea which they have violently seized.

It was not violently seized. Life is good in Crimea right now. Eastern Ukraine is where the war is and it's horrible.

Deranged96

catbear wrote: »

Statistically war fatality has decreased significantly since 1945.

Death doesn't equal terror

MarkAnthony

Deranged96 wrote: »

Death doesn't equal terror

The Blitz looked like great craic.

Deranged96

MarkAnthony wrote: »

The Blitz looked like great craic.

So did watching a man burn in a cage

A good article breaking it down on our perception it's getting worse versus the real statistics of it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.html

csallmighty

Yeah there is, its always been this way and now we get bombarded with news from all over the globe 24/7

Imo the world is too big to pay attention to all that's going on, there's just too much information.

DeadHand

AndonHandon wrote: »

Ukraine. There is a region called Crimea which they have violently seized.

It was not violently seized. There wasn't a shot fired in anger when Russian troops secured the peninsula after a pro-NATO a movement in Kiev containing far right and ultra nationalist elements violently overthrew a democratically elected government.

The people of Crimea, the majority of whom see themselves as Russian, later voted overwhelmingly to be reunited with Russia.

The area is at peace now, in stark contrast with Novorossiya.

DeadHand

The world isn't dramatically more dangerous now than it has been on average throughout history.

Still worth noting that the entire death toll from conflicts around the world in 2014 amounted to about as many who would have died on an average day of world war two.

jamesbere

mad muffin wrote: »

Just think of it this way.

Every minute of every hour of every day. Somewhere around the world there is:

Someone getting:

Murdered
Raped
Assaulted
Beaten to with in an inch of their life
Human trafficked
Children being molested and raped repeatedly
Parents looking for their missing children
Dogs and humans being burned alive
Women stoned to death
Not to mention all the other vile stuff humans do to each other and to animals too.

We are worse than animals.

With the exception of the last two, one of the rest could be happening in Ireland right now.

evosteo

clear map to show what conflict is going on where in the world and the level of severity associated with each conflict.

http://www.cfr.org/global/global-conflict-tracker/p32137#!/

johnohanlon

If you ever read the comments on the MSN news site from english thugs they go on about getting rid of Muslims from Britain and what not and rant about terrorism yet they would never rant about British terrorism in N.Ireland and how their army worked alongside terrorists.

1357

mad muffin wrote: »

We are worse than animals.

We ARE animals. Apes. Remember? Millions of years of evolution?

Hi!

humbert

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

IMHO Facebook are pure scum and they should be put on trial for being "accessories after the fact"

"in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment"

Son Of A Vidic

AndonHandon wrote: »

Russia are still cnuts.

One of those rare posts, where you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

porsche959

catbear wrote: »

Statistically war fatality has decreased significantly since 1945.

I understand the point you are making, but 1945 is probably not a good starting point, being a particularly bad year.

Capt'n Midnight

humbert wrote: »

"in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment"

Try the full sentence.

Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.

Terrorists have commuted offences against the US. FB allow videos of their actions to be posted. What they could have done was tracked them back, what they should have done at the very least was warn people that posting stuff was instant ban forever and that info would be passed to the authorities.

It's pretty much the same way that news stations have blood on their hands because whenever they show school shootings or suicides etc. stats show that there are usually a few of copycats after several days of national coverage.

sparksfly

AndonHandon wrote: »

Russia are still cnuts.

They are in the eyes of the warmongering US and NATO.

Jesus Wept

The war on nouns.

TheBeardedLady

catbear wrote: »

Statistically war fatality has decreased significantly since 1945.

But media outlets competing for audience and profit share have increased expotentially through hysterical, clickbaity headlines, inaccurate, biased reporting with an agenda and often resorting to out and out lies. Take everything you read with a pinch of salt and think critically. Don't get sucked into the hype.

humbert

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Try the full sentence.

Terrorists have commuted offences against the US. FB allow videos of their actions to be posted. What they could have done was tracked them back, what they should have done at the very least was warn people that posting stuff was instant ban forever and that info would be passed to the authorities.

It's pretty much the same way that news stations have blood on their hands because whenever they show school shootings or suicides etc. stats show that there are usually a few of copycats after several days of national coverage.

I quoted the part that stated the necessary intent. On ethics I agree, but the link you posted does not support that charge.

YFlyer

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Am I the only one who can't keep up with what's going on where?

we're at the most safest time in recent history.