# So dose civilization improved the quality of human life?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-dose-civilization-improved-the-quality-of-human-life/308358>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 15, 2005, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-dose-civilization-improved-the-quality-of-human-life/308358 "2005-06-15T09:21:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-dose-civilization-improved-the-quality-of-human-life/308358/61 "2005-08-30T16:13:50Z")

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> Wow, Little Nemo, you seem to know an awful lot about “pre-civilized” society. I love the statistics you dug up (from before statistics were invented) about death rates. And the way you describe daily life, you must have been there! You must be really old!

No, I just find it’s useful to know something about a subject before I go giving opinions on it.

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