This simply cannot be up for debate in a civilized society like ours.

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The process of extolling those principles started when humans tried to be civil to each other in a civilized society.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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