How about we look at this from a historical aspect. First off, there is nothing new under the sun. That's Biblical. If it would take you forever to list what's going down today, how long would it take us to list all the horrific things that went down through the centuries?
Lets see, racial and cultural genocide is nothing new.
Sexual immorality sure isn't new either. Heck, we also scoff at the idea of our teans getting married too early when in fact, it was very common and practical in the days of old.
Killing for the sake of killing, nope, not new either.
Torture? Well, think of what the Brits did centuries ago for those who committed treason.
Crucifixion, which ran rampant through the Roman Empire, was pretty cruel also.
Wars and rumors of wars? that too has been going on for 1,000's of years.
Children disrespecting their elders? Not new either. Aristotle wrote a letter about disobedient children in his time.
Stalin... Hitler, Khan, Napoleon, Mussolini, most of the Roman Emperors, etc.
The various plagues before man learned to contain them through the God-given miracle of medicine.
It seems bad to us (and it is), but it's largely because we are living through it and we have this tendency to disconnect ourselves from events past.
I am 54 and sometimes I say things like, "well back in the day..." because even I feel things were a lot simpler then.
But then I think of my dad, who is a Depression baby...