Wednesday, July 9, 2014

How Civilized Societies Behave Under Fire (and How Uncivilized Ones Behave Too)

Civilized societies build warning systems, bomb shelters, and defensive missile shields to protect their citizens.Uncivilized societies use their citizens to protect the missiles and terrorist apparatus.

Civilized societies warn the civilians on the other side before striking so as to minimize civilian casualties as much as possible.
Uncivilized societies fire indiscriminately at civilians in an attempt to maim and kill as many as possible.

Civilized societies are nearly unanimously disgusted and ashamed when one of their own commits heinous crimes against an innocent 16 year-old boy on his way to pray.
Uncivilized societies hand out candies and flash '3 fingered' salutes to celebrate the murder of 3 teenage boys returning home to see their families after a week of school.

Civilized societies place life above all else.
Uncivilized societies are obsessed with death and martyrdom.

Civilized societies dedicate the lion's share of their financial resources to providing basic welfare services and universal healthcare to their citizens, regardless of those citizens' race, creed, or religion.
Uncivilized societies divert nearly all of their resources to building and obtaining the instruments of war to use against civilians.

Civilized societies overwhelmingly support sharing the land that they have with another people for the sake of peace. They have withdrawn from land conquered in defensive wars on multiple occasions for this very purpose.
Uncivilized societies overwhelmingly support reconquering all of the land between the river and the sea.

Civilized societies are home to diverse populations, with Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, straight and gay, liberal and conservative, living together in the same cities and towns.
Uncivilized societies are so inhospitable to anyone even remotely different that you wont be able to find them living there.

Civilized societies try to teach their children to have tolerance for people that are different than them, even for those they vehemently disagree with.
Uncivilized societies nurture their children on hatred of Jews from cradle to grave.

Individuals that believe there's any moral equivalence between Civilized and Uncivilized societies are those Edmund Burke was referring to when he said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."