How Good are We?

When someone does something so positive and nice that it makes the national news, the standard response is “It makes you feel good about the world.” The down side to this statement is that most news items are so bad that an uplifting item is quite rare and stands out as unusual. The more you think about it, a good news item makes you feel even worse about the world, not good about it, since this is the way the world could be if we weren’t the way we normally are.