Well, you know, the Heineken guy, as in post 41. I see myself in that guy. I can picture it, and I think of that every time I see it. But hey, he got off didn’t he? That wasn’t so wrong, was it?
Nobody’s completely honest. It’s a consequence of the fall of mankind.
If your best and chief goal is a nice society, then you probably will like having people who are proud that they don’t loot. But hate never goes away due to human action alone. It just moves around. I think of Singapore with its famous (or infamous) caning and other draconian measures. They keep the face of the town pretty clean. But if you read their papers you’ll see a river of inter-ethnic hatred running strong. Oh those damn Filipinos! Oh those rotten Chinese! Etc., etc... far worse than anything seen on American shores, where vice is still very present, just different.