On 13/07/2014 1:15 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
Furthermore, the idea that all societies can keep everyone alive long enough is just nonsense. Look back over the last 100 years and count the war dead, the people who've died in famines, and the people, the children, who are dying now from preventable causes.
Go into any old cemetery and look at the percentage of grave markers where the person died very young, and compare that to today. The reason why our average age before we die has increased from 50 to 80 in the past couple of hundred years is because we have done a very good job in western societies of suppressing infant and child mortality, not because we are necessarily living a lot longer.
Humans have always placed a higher importance on the lives of their own tribe and less importance on the lives of other tribes, which is why western countries (North America in particular) will throw almost half of it's food in the trash, but allow million to die in famines in other parts of the world. As long as we are well fed, we aren't so concerned about people starving in far away places.
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