Indeed, and only by an incredibly narrow margin did we escape many orders of magnitudes more suffering and cruelty - we really did come awfully close to the edge during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Actually, I believe that nowadays we live in even more cruel and lethal world than 50 years ago. On the other hand, we also have so many wonderful things. I do not believe that evil/good ratio has gone down in these 50 years.
Indeed, and only by an incredibly narrow margin did we escape many orders of magnitudes more suffering and cruelty - we really did come awfully close to the edge during the Cuban Missile Crisis.