>ON the other hand, there is also more murder, more addiction, more poverty (odd considering we are in the greatest period of prosperity since the great depression), more hunger, more homelessness, more depression, more divorce, more road rage, and that list could go on an on. There are things going on that in just my short lifetime (46 years) I could never have imagined.

murder is at its lowest rate since 1966 http://www.sightings.com/general4/level.htm