And they kept fighting that battle for a whole year.
Now we are horrified that 2,400 Americans were killed over the last 18 years in Afghanistan.
This is probably a pretty good proxy for the value we now place on human life, compared to our ancestors. Ergo, things ARE better.
Sure, there are problems...there always will be. But an uptick in loneliness doesn't outweigh the fact that the number of people living close to starvation is falling on both a percentile and absolute basis.