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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
In terms of technology sure I'd agree, but when I stated that the world wasn't any better, remember at the end of World War 1 it was labeled the war to end all war.
Man has become far more violent and ugly between the end of WW1 and his death.
We also have the capability to kill in greater numbers in a hurry.
Maybe I mispoke a bit, but the honest hope of all warriors is that one day we can all beat our swords into ploughs, that never happened. For all of the violence of WW1, it paled in comparison to WW2, after that it was war after war after war each with a greater capability of violence.
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I really disagree with you. As nasty as the world is now, it was nastier before WWI. Just prior to WWI you had the Armenian massacre.
Prior to WWI the concept of human rights was basically unknown. Until the early 1900s slavery was still legal in large parts of Africa and Asia. Not to mention all the indentured labourers all across the colonial empires.
There's a reason why average life expectancy has shot up so dramatically since WWI. Life is just better. Obviously some people still have it rough, but the proportion of peolpe who do is far less.
I think you need to look into history and see just how brutal these old empires, that essentially ended or went into decline after WWI, actually were. Essentially, everything that we consider backwards and inhumane today was at one time common place.
Soldiers like the guy in this article played a large part in this.