what do you think the world is becomming....

what I am trying to say here that, we have lost humanity and have become worst than animal in terms of crime and terrorisum but I guess the truthfulness, kindness and faith in justice is still there and it is visible in few hearts even today who are doing social work for needy people... good and evil prevail all the time in our life..but we should always try to remain honest with our conciousness and follow our inner voice which always warn you not to go towards evil... Goodness is always difficult to gain but not impossible.....

And what I'm trying to say is your initial premise is faulty. In fact, what you have there is mere rhetoric. Is there a measure of this loss of humanity? A historical analysis of how people are more inhuman nowadays than, say, 1476?

Wolfechu, Yes, Barbaric were the times when Mongol hordes and Huns and other marauding tribes descended on villages and wiped them off after looting them and enslaving their population. But those were the times when proper boundary of nations, army, allegiance, military expertise and intelligence, proper infrastructure within nations, communication, travel…all these were either in a very nascent stage or developed only in pockets. The same facilities (more or less) were not available to all the people so the nomadic people usually attacked the settled ones to loot and take by force. There were no international treaties and conferences and no sense of encroaching on other’s land or water. However, the situation (as you say) is not so nowadays…much improvement has taken place to generally make life easier and convenient for us. YET, we see the same pattern being repeated…the same attacks, the same heartless useless killing, the same torture, the same loot and enslavement, albeit in a different garb. So, inspite of so much advancement to make life easer and more enjoyable for us, we are still resorting to senseless violence…doesn’t that make us more barbaric than our forefathers!