They show just how easy it would be to slip from civilized society into desperate tribes of survivors.
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilized society.
Let's step back, look at the big picture and ask ourselves what we really want from civilized society.
Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller.
There is little more to it than being broke, proud, ingenious and setting your heels against civilized society's pull.
This simply cannot be up for debate in a civilized society like ours.
The process of extolling those principles started when humans tried to be civil to each other in a civilized society.
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Here's a suggestion: Let's step back, look at the big picture and ask ourselves what we really want from civilized society.
Some of them date to the 17th century, when the blacksmiths that created them were still the engine of civilized society.
It is shameful that in a civilized society we have to say this, but getting less loot is not the same thing as being robbed.
Laws banning the game were passed in the 19th century, when Australia was struggling to build a civilized society from boatloads of convicts transported from England.
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But allowing guns in school is simply counterintuitive to the kind of civilized society we want to live in and represent to the rest of the world.
Arguments like the one over Augusta National matter, because they shine a bright light on the ingrained attitudes that should be no longer acceptable in a civilized society.
But in a civilized society, the priority should be to make sure the people that need help get it, not to stop the few bad eggs from sitting pretty.
At some point, the news media and society in general are going to have to decide to begin holding these elements accountable to standards of behavior that are acceptable in a civilized society.
If this gang warfare in cyberland reaches its logical conclusion, rather than living in a civilized society, we will all inhabit, metaphorically at least, stone castles with draw bridges, from which we never emerge adorned with less than 500 lbs of steel armor.
It proved that society has the capacity to reassert norms of civilized behavior even when they appear to have permanently broken down.
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