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.
“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.”