World gone mad: People angry about "innocent until proven gulty"

[Normchacho]

Lawlight said:

Normchacho said:
I really don't think you're using "World gone mad" properly. I'd argue that the world is less "mad" now than it has ever been. We used to burn people as witches...

Well, I'd argue that they were ignorant back then more so than mad. Now they have the benefit of science knowledge and yet...

That's fair. Though, I still think I'd argue that this isn't really an example of the world going mad. I mean, today I saw a church in Florida claiming to have moved hurricane Irma with prayer. That's mad, this is just a differing of political opinions.

 

Edit: I'd also like to add that I actually think were going in a positive direction in respect to our maddness. You really don't need to go back that far in human history to find some crazy shit that used to be common.