And he's told this is what they do in the cities, this--you know, if you want to get on in the world and you want to be civilized, then you have to drink beer.
Working conditions tend to be cozy and civilized and there are minimal travel demands, except perhaps a non-mandatory conference or two.
They show just how easy it would be to slip from civilized society into desperate tribes of survivors.
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No-one's going to prosecute him and he too will be treated in an entirely civilized manner.
This simply cannot be up for debate in a civilized society like ours.
Arguments like the one over Augusta National matter, because they shine a bright light on the ingrained attitudes that should be no longer acceptable in a civilized society.
The process of extolling those principles started when humans tried to be civil to each other in a civilized society.
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With respect to what I've said in the past around red lines -- what I've said is that the use of chemical weapons are something that the civilized world has recognized should be out of bounds.
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But in a civilized society, the priority should be to make sure the people that need help get it, not to stop the few bad eggs from sitting pretty.
It is a staple of our civilized criminal justice system that you cannot be convicted of committing a crime unless you knew what you were doing and realized that it was against the law.
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What Mr. Bush and the Administration need to say, and Congress will be behind them, is that they recognize that no civilized nation can stand down while these kinds of barbaric attacks are launched against its civilian population week after week.
And that they will be able to read and travel and listen to music like other civilized people.
But even barring another catastrophe, it might be really nice to get from one town to another in a civilized way, the way a Bostonian might go to New York for a weekend to see a play or something.
The longer term solution would be to develop an appropriate social contract: conducting ourselves online under the same civilized behavioral norms that keep us from, say, stealing stuff from one another's homes even though we could probably get away with it.
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