Despite worries, it’s a great time to be alive

By John Stossel

Published September 30, 2014 7:38pm ET

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Despite worries, it’s a great time to be alive — President Obama: "If you had to choose any moment to be born in human history, you'd choose this time. The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been."Â (AP/Evan Vucci) | Evan Vucci

Americans now face beheadings, gang warfare, Ebola, the Islamic State and a new war in Syria. It’s natural to assume that the world has gotten more dangerous. But it hasn’t.

People believe that crime has gotten worse. But over the past two decades, murder and robbery in the U.S. are down by more than half, and rape by a third, even as complaints about “rape culture” grow louder.

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