High sec should be.. more safe

you did not address it. So it did not move.

Depends on what you define as safety.

If it’s effective safety(number of aggression), then a jungle where no man goes is the most safe place on earth. If it’s safety relative to time (that is average aggressions per time of living), then being a hermit should be the most safe thing to do.
Then you can add the cost of aggressions over the earning in your life, the insurances, etc and all the discussions will only be relevant when we all use the same common definition of safety.

Then you can also define safety as the mechanism in place to increase the effective safety. Example, placing cameras on every street, paying cops more so that they can patrol, be sure that people can be integrated in the society so that they don’t need to rely on aggression, enhancing education so every child can be a part of the society, etc. (I’m not saying those are good , I’m saying they may be used with the goal in mind to increase effective safety)

I’m not saying HS is not safe. I’m saying this words has too many meaning so people using it and people reading it have different definition in mind. And sometime their own definition even vary from one post to another.