Has mankind become more evil in the last 100 years?

Question

Please include details and links

explain in terms of

Crime rates

The human mind

Culture

or through other categories that you may feel better summarize the venues of evil.

Answer 1

No.  It's just that society does not require him to keep it as well hidden as in former times.

Answer 2

I don't believe that mankind has become more evil - just that the media can report it now in full, on TV, the Internet, free press etc.

My mother (in her 80s) tells me there were paedaphiles around when she was a child, but their mothers knew and told them which men to avoid.

Murders were hanged, they aren't now. No deterrent.

Bad peple now are viewed by liberals as in need of help. Its the victims who need the help not the baddies.

The culture of UK is such that no-one should be blamed for being bad, its society's fault!

Answer 3

A tough question, mankind is a general term. One hundred years ago there were no statistics on crime rates that could be applied to all mankind. So the question must be answered in terms of the human mind and culture. The human mind has created so many circumstances and inventions that dehumanize and hurt their fellow humans that to say human beings are not evil is an impossible argument. But if you look at war as evil most of the soldiers involved would be fighting for patrotic reasons or they would be conscripts fighting without a choice. The tools and methods used in warfare are designed to terrorize and kill an enemy quickly so as to bring a quick end to the conflict. Trying to bring a quick end to a war cannot be considered evil no matter what the means. Slavery was present a hundred years ago and it exists today and is tolerated by enlightened human societies. These same societies care for their disadvantaged at great expense. Human kind uses a border as a convienient line to blurr their hypocricy. I believe this is where the answer lies. Today the entire world has access to knowledge, we all know what is happening accross the world. We all know the hatred being preached in mosques and the slaughter of innocent people in africa, we know right from wrong but if there is a border between ourselves and the evil we see, then we tolerate the evil. A hundred years ago news traveled slowly and it was impossible for people to feel or see the pain inflicted on their fellow men. There was more of an excuse for inaction and toleration of atrocities. The fact that more people are aware of evil as it is happening and nothing is done to stop it is evidence of the moral decline of mankind.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

That would seem like doing all the work for you....

My thought is that mankind is no more evil now than they were 100 years ago, we just have more technology.

Answer 6

I agree with some of the other posters.

It only seems as if though society has gotten worse... but it has only gotten better (especially the industrilized western world).

Think about it...  well-fair, charities for almost every problem, better health care... red cross... children's rights, women's rights, rights of minorities,  taking care of our enviroment, etc.

But because sensationality sells (and it keeps the public in line)...we only hear about the rapes and murders and kidnappings and terrorists attacks.

Answer 7

No. In fact, I think we're actually less so. I mean, think about your history...slavery, the brutality of the Roman Empire, the subjugation of women, war was far more prevalent, and more brutal.

I don't think that crime has increased at all, I think the ever-present media makes our culture more aware of it.

Think about it...slavery used to be considered perfectly moral, and murder was hardly noticed unless the person murdered was a person of note.

Answer 8

Read some history books. There were some real mean folk out there once upon a time. Vlad the impaler, Henry the 8th, Shaka Kahn, Nero, the Spanish Inquisition, Hitler, the list goes on and on.  The human mind wants to control its world and everyone in it. Law and civilized culture controls it but absolute power creates a being out of control. The monster is still out there, just waiting for another Hitler or Saddam to be allowed to have total control.