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Reshared post from +Eric Lortie

I've seen a lot of people today say stuff like "I've lost all faith in humanity" and a bunch of other cynical, asinine garbage.

Those people are looking at it wrong and I feel sorry for them.

Today had some terrible stuff happen. Not just in Boston. Hell, that wasn't even the bombing with the highest number of injuries and deaths, and that's madness. There are all sorts of legitimately terrible things happening all over the world all the time.

And you know what?

Things are better than they used to be. We used to send armies of people to stab each other with swords. We used to line up with muskets and shoot point blank at one another. We spent years fighting in trenches in the mud and the guts and the blood of our friends.

And now we have terrorists and drones strikes and school shootings and a bunch of other heinous shit, but we have less of those other things. That makes me hopeful  I firmly believe one day we'll have less of these things as well. It probably won't ever stop, but it'll get better. 

Just remember: for every jackass terrorist douchebag willing to blow up a bomb in public, there are a dozen heroes willing to immediately rush into the thick of things to try and help. For every petty dictator looking to kill people to make money and take power, there are thousands of humanitarian aid workers  This fills me with all sorts of faith in humanity. 

It just seems worse because people make money when you think shit is terrible. I'm not saying bury your head in the sand, but I am suggest you step back from this stuff. No one needs 24/7 coverage of something like this. As soon as you find out what happened: go and hug your loved ones and be with them. Not out of fear for what happened, because bad things will always happen, but out of celebration of what we have and who we are.