### Instruction: Rewrite this English sentence to give a better translation.

### English: The American society has unfortunately accepted the statistics of hardship, death, and other casualties as a “way of life” in exchange for “freedom” or some such nonsense.
### English rewrite: Unfortunately, American society has "accepted" the statistics of hardship, deaths and other casualties as just "a way of life"...in exchange for "freedom" or some such BS.