Mirth wrote:
I hate to make the loss of life a point of statistics but talk about this being the new normal is wrong. What's normalised is the disproportionate attention these attacks receive which ultimately feeds on the atmosphere of terror which ultimately leads to a noxious political and social environment.
By any metric, the current state of global affairs is unusually peaceful compared to even a few decades ago
Let's take a couple of years as data points and think about your argument. 1977 and 2015.
In 1977, 200 deaths accounted for 70% of global deaths from "attacks" (I presume based on some dubious classification of terrorism). So total deaths were 300.
In 2015, 200 deaths accounted for 2.2% of global deaths from "attacks" ... so total deaths were ... 10000?
In other words, according to your chart it's relatively easy to argue things are, globally, much worse now than in the 1970s.
But I think either the methodology for classification of violent deaths is bullshit and has varied historically, or the numbers themselves are bullshit, since what I'm looking at doesn't really seem to add up. The percentages seem to smoothly decline whereas the number of deaths per annum jumps about a lot.
