Is the world a safer place now than in previous times?

Hell to the no.Hate-filled people,aggressive drivers,crazy tweakers,everybody's fkn nuts! In my hometown of Baltimore a guy killed his own mother on Valentine's Day.WTF's up with that!?

i used to walk 4 or 5 blocks to school and crossed a busy street

no way I'd send a kid out like that now (I was in 2nd grade at the time)

[c=#4C0073]with a drug deal on every block, a mass shooting every other day, and war raging world round?!? I highly doubt it.[/c]

According to The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker, it is. I agree with him.

Yes, absolutely.

It is, on a day-to-day basis. Much safer, in fact. If you doubt it, go to an old cemetery and read the born-died numbers.

In terms of potential danger, such as nuclear warfare, much worse.

i mean we've stopped using the guillotine as much so

Obviously, by every single objective measure.

Statistically I would say yes

I don't know :/

Yep