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We don't allow editorializing headlines. The OG headline here is "Israel says 'Gaza is burning' as it launches ground assault"
You can editorialize in the body of the post or as a comment, but not the headline.
(I'd personally lead with "no shit Israel, you're burning it!" but you do you.)
Please revert the headline or we'll have to remove the post.
It's horrific.
Humans are a cancer, we have developed and advanced technologically but we are still barbarians. There's very little we can do about the human condition so we will continue to watch these disasters and tut tut, and click on the next story.
By most measures, such as number of humans killed in war or child mortality, human suffering in the modern era is less than it's ever been. In the grand scheme of things, we have made the world a place with much more room for joy and love over the course of human civilisation.
While I agree with the sentiment, these have mainly come about due to technological advancements as well as social ones (diplomacy). We are at heart still a war mongering people with a need to dominate.
Do the technological and social advances not show that we are also at heart a progressive people with a need to care for eachother and create a better future?
They do, up to the point where, as we are seeing, technology starts being used by governments to suppress their people. Where social advances have identified many disorders, only for governments to use these medical labels (autism springs to mind in the US) to attack groups of people or refute science to blame these disorders on vaccines for example. Two vastly different sides of one messed up coin. For every advance we make, these advances give tools to governments etc. I get how far medicine has come and how we have got a handle on many diseases, and how technology has without doubt made our every day lives easier. But there's a flip side to that, and it's ugly.
For sure, but it's yet to be seen if the bad outweighs the good. For the last several centuries it's been going the right way, so there is good reason to hope that a century from now, things are even better than they are today.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for the good causes, naturally.