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Originally Posted by Livia

Compared to before the rise of IS, and them appealing to every skewed Muslim in the world to kill the infidel; compared to a time before we let in hundreds of thousands...millions... of unchecked people into Europe and have no idea at all how many are followers of IS. One in a million? One in a thousand? One in ten? Maybe it's different in the little village where you live... I expect the people who live in the little village where the priest was murdered thought they were far enough from the fray, but there's no such thing any more. Maybe because of the nature and area of my work I'm a little more aware? Maybe I've heard and seen things that make it more clear to me? It doesn't govern my life, but I have to acknowledge that the times are more dangerous now and to deny that... well... where's that picture? You know? the head in the sand one...

So you're at more risk now than you would have been in the 1940's? You're more at risk walking down the street in London today than you would have been in the Victorian era or earlier?

Like I said; I'm not saying we don't live in a dangerous world but the phrase "these are dangerous times" is comparative; it's stating that an individual is more at risk TODAY than they were in the past... which is simply false. The statistical likelihood of you, me, or any other healthy adult going out and dying today is FAR lower than it has been throughout the vast majority of history - and as I said, that's even WITH automotive accidents (the number one killer of healthy people, by a country mile). This can actually be verified by actual numbers and stats. You are safer today than you would have been in any other era, bar perhaps a few parts of the latter 20th century when things were pretty "quiet" in western Europe... but I would call that an uncommon period of calm, rather than the world now "uncommonly dangerous".

So... like I said; I've nt been claiming that the world is not a dangerous place. It obviously can be. And all you've done is explain why you think the world is dangerous, and that's fine. But it doesn't answer my question, other than in pointing out that we had a very briefly calm period before the rise of ISIS.

More dangerous, compared to WHEN? In terms of broader history.