Has the world become better or worse in the last two thousand years?

i think there has always been positive and negative since the begining of time. it will always exist. it's too hard to say how much better or worse the world was before anything living now could truly attest to anything, but the hearsay called history. we should concentrate on how to make now and the future better.

Two thousand years is a very long time. So long that I cannot even begin to name some of the advances that have occurred. The world that was lived in all those years ago is vastly different. It is kind of hard to imagine people living without things that we quite frankly take for granted. The printing press was one of those inventions that happened in the last two thousand years. Could we really imagine a world without books? Without books, there would be countless other inventions that enrich the world. Plus we are better off in many ways. We live a lot longer. Diseases that killed years ago are easily cured or obsolete. Our their negatives to the new world we lived in? Yes, of course there are, with the good there must always be bad. However, do the positives outweigh the negatives? You better believe it. We have gone into the world we have with many great advances, so we are much better off.

I think the world has become better. There is a lot more equality around the world. Children are no longer taught to hide under the desks in the event of nuclear war. Like that would have helped anyway. I think that the world will get better and better as the years progress. That's, of course, if we don't manage to destroy the Earth. I think that's the next big hurdle for humanity--dealing with all the pollution we have created.

headhunter525, To those who are living in war torn or civil disaster stricken regions I feel that the answer would be obvious on one side of the scale. Whilst, for those who are living in struggling economy regions, they will also feel no less comfortable than their fellow neighbors above. In my observation, as much as the world has progressed in economy, health, science and technology; it has also took a beating in all these departments. IMO, I feel that our world has become better and no matter what we have witnessed - let us not forget to give due credit to our present surrounding and environment. Be contented with what we have and remember those who do not have it at the moment yet.

Hi headhunter, I think the world has become better place. :) When Ashoka, and Alexander ruled, there was no hesitation in killing, no restraint applied when contemplating wars, and people were much more casual when they saw other human beings bleed with swords and spears. Now - we feel bad when we see a fellow human being suffer! Yes - Hitler, Polpot, and Nanking were also there. But the thing is, many Germans did not personally see the pain, and were possibly not aware of extermination camps. What more, those who knew, didn't know how to escape the system as if they defied it, they could be in the line of fire. Which means they were afraid! So we progressed from times when we were indifferent to a fellow human being attacked by ferocious animals, to fellow human beings only being killed during territorial expansions, and finally to a level when such bloodshed is there only when territorial boundaries are encroached. Thought provoking discussion.

Well, i personally think that the world are becoming worse. People are beginning to be having moral problems, Greedy minds, and some other bad thoughts. But it doesn't mean that every person in this world are like that. There are some people who still care for this world.