The thing is that people living in these places that are unprecedentedly peaceful, in the way that HN likes to trot out whenever someone points out the ugliness of the world, may end up voting apathetically for leaders that have their war machine making the world far less peaceful in places that are out of sight and out of mind.
Sites like Liveleak may remind you that war isn't the choreography that your governments want you to think it is.
Oh, no, I'm 100% on board with you there. But in terms of total violence in real terms, even with imperialist violence of world powers, we're a smidge away from historic lows of global violence.
Sites like Liveleak may remind you that war isn't the choreography that your governments want you to think it is.