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To: Ancesthntr; All
"...Necessity strips away morality and civility..."

Of all your wisdom excreted onto this thread, this is perhaps the most underrated, profound, and most ignored.

I look at our country and culture from a sociological perspective, and I posit that the neighbor that currently merely does not like you would, when the going gets tough, be perfectly willing to slit your child's throat if it meant one more day of life for them.

Civilization, morality, and civility is a thin veneer. Simply put, many folks nowadays are self-serving pricks. You see it on the roads. You see it in your interactions with strangers.

109 posted on 04/26/2017 12:02:43 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: T-Bone Texan

“I look at our country and culture from a sociological perspective, and I posit that the neighbor that currently merely does not like you would, when the going gets tough, be perfectly willing to slit your child’s throat if it meant one more day of life for them.”


Try 10 minutes, and you’ll be closer to accurate.

“Civilization, morality, and civility is a thin veneer. Simply put, many folks nowadays are self-serving pricks. You see it on the roads. You see it in your interactions with strangers.”


Indeed. One need not be a psychic to see the truth in this. Hell, just look at how many people treat each other on the internet.


115 posted on 04/26/2017 2:23:31 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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