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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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.

We are more at risk of ISIS terrorist attacks now than we were 10 years ago. Ask those Brits attacked in Tunisia, ask the family of the beheaded soldier.

These are more dangerous times than most peoples living memory. To deny that, is sticking your head in the sand.