(01-21-2024, 03:37 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(01-21-2024, 02:44 PM)mikesez Wrote: It's just a list of bad things man. You're making a lot out of very little.  The point is all four things on the list have become less common in the US.  Do you want to discuss if the bad things are becoming less common, or do you want to keep making the thread about me?

The point is that it's impossible to have a meaningful exchange when your sense of priorities is so distorted.   Take divorce out the violent crime category and replace it human trafficking and drug dealing.  What's the trend with those crimes?  What about BLM protesters torching buildings and overturning police cars?  Are those actions indicative of the moral standards you claim are improving?  Why do you think retailers are fleeing San Fransisco?

You could have just said "what about human trafficking and drug dealing" instead of going through three iterations of personal attacks.

Human trafficking, by its nature you're not going to find reliable numbers 

Drug dealing, it seems there's about the same or maybe fewer people addicted to illegal drugs, compared to two decades ago, however, the drugs that are out there are an order of magnitude more deadly.  There was a spike in new addictions due to oxycontin marketing but that's back to normal now.  So OK, there's one thing getting worse, due to newly developed synthetic drugs, against four things I mentioned getting better.

As for BLM protests with overturning cars and torching buildings, I haven't heard of anything like that since about January 6, 2021.  Haven't heard about white supremacists doing anything like that recently either (remember Charlottesville?). But yeah.  We definitely had a spike in that kind of thing from about 2017 through the end of 2020.  I wonder what we could blame that on?

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