The Floor
Is the world more dangerous than it was five years ago?
Nothing settles this one. It is here because everybody has an answer and almost nobody has heard the other one.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that danger means risk to ordinary life, not to headlines.
Runs while the room is still moving
Centred on “About the same” — the line is where the room balances.
- More dangerous
- About the same
- Less dangerous
Where you stand
The room's largest group answered "More dangerous".
Answered as you did
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Lead over second
39 pts
"More dangerous" is ahead
Everyone here
1,437
58 changed their mind
How divided
Leaning one way
agreed → even
| Answer | Share of the room | People | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| More dangerousmost | 892 | 62% | |
| About the same | 331 | 23% | |
| Less dangerous | 214 | 15% |
Nothing settles this one. When it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
1,437 have taken a position · 58 changed their mind · 3 reasons
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Battle deaths worldwide are at a thirty-year highMore dangerous
- Fewer people live under famine than a decade agoLess dangerous
- Danger is mostly measured by what gets reported
How the room moved
Share of the room, 0 to 100 per cent · 1 Sept to now
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Jonas W.@jonas_w· 3 Sept
Fewer people die violently now than in almost any decade on record. Danger you can see on a screen is not the same as danger you are in.
Priya N.@priya_n· 4 Sept
The count is low because the last eighty years were unusual. Ask again about the arrangements that made them unusual.
Ken M.@ken_m· 6 Sept
Every generation believes its own weather is a climate.
