This not only goes for hate - speak, but for lying and slandering: our Supreme Court may say it's legal, but is
it they way civilized people conduct themselves?
Not exact matches
The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more
people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if
civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we can not now see any
way in which it can be overcome.
Hopefully some day we can learn to just look the other
way (You know, turn the other cheek as Christ taught), or learn that saying other
people's beliefs are stupid (atheist's you don't like it when
people tell you you're wrong, but you feel you can tell others they're wrong) is detrimental to a
civilized society.
So this mindset puts you add odds with a whole lot of other
people, who even though they may disagree on things, may actually be able to discuss their differences in a
civilized way.
The lesser
people live on either the middle floors of the bottom, a construction that will pave the
way for both class warfare and a general breakdown of all
civilized rule.
There are
way too many
people on this planet, many of them suffering in poverty, yet would any
civilized society find it morally or ethically acceptable to euthanize them?
Not to mention all the
people in the credits of the films The 11» th hour, What a
way to go, BBC, Discovery, PBS, NOVA, The Nature of Things, thousands of scientists the world around, and 98.43 % ~ 3 % of the
civilized population.
Teddy Roosevelt noted that «
civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other
way than putting it into the drinking water.»
Over a hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt noted that «
civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other
way than putting it into the drinking water.»
In his most recent book, «Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking,» philosopher Daniel Dennett explains that arguments can still be
civilized discussions if
people don't let their egos get in the
way.