Life more safe back in the 1800s or now?
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Lynn-is Lost
ANSWERS: 15
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I'd prob say now..just bc of the advances in medicine
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1800s.
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If "safe" means less likelihood of serious debility or death, then it is safer now as indicated by impressively extended life expectancy. If "safe" means living a full life forever, then there is no such thing as "safe".
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Now, almost everywhere. Not in places like certain parts of Africa where life expectancies are extremely low thanks to disease and war, but just about everywhere else, life expectancies have steadily risen
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I'd say now. Ik theres a war going on now.. (america) but in 1800 they didnt have the technology and laws that make up todays world.
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most definitely now, advances in medicine have made things alot better, and people are not as in fear of their lives now as they were back then, back then the west was very wild.
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Ahoy, Matey--depends on your definition of "safe"...as the prior answers indicate, medical advances certainly ensure that we don't die as often of fatal illnesses or disease, however back then herbal remedies were the norm for minor illnesses which could have resulted in fatal complications, and used correctly worked (and still do, btw) very well indeed...as far as living in a "safe" society, the 1800's were much safer than now, one could see danger approaching and take measures as needed, unlike the present day where you are taking your life in your hands stopping at the ATM for cash, going shopping and walking back out to your car, or just walking down the street and being in the wrong place at the wrong time...Wench sighs, and wishes for a return to a simpler lifestyle....
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Safe is relative. On an individual level now due to medicine and government. Globally less, we can burn this planet to a cinder with nuclear warfare and we're poisoning the environment.
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For Caucasians it may have been, but certainly not for black people.
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It probably depends how you look at it. If you got a disease in 1850, there probably was little anyone could do. However, the built environment may overall be less safe now. There was no getting run over by a car in 1850.
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now by far.
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Pretty much a third grade question. Depends on a lot of things, including how you define safe, and when and where in the 1800a. Smallpox, infant/mother mortality, yellow fever? The life expectancy is much longer now.
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If you didn't mind dying at about 40 years of age without any teeth, maybe missing a limb or two, having a few diseases that are unheard of today amoung about a thousand others thing than I would go with the first.
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Now. If you're not a rich person that is. http://www.jnpa.com/Prod-157-1-200/The-Good-Old-Days-They-Were-Terrible-by-Otto-L-Bettmann.htm
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As one of AB's most senior citizens, I can't remember, but I think I felt a lot safer back in the mid-1800's than I do now. Will someone please pass me my Aricept? :-) +5
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