Civilization is my country


 * When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

An objective person is a person with sufficient objectivity to understand that the universe does not revolve around their ego.

A civilized society is a society whose laws do not revolve around any one person or any one group of people.

The more a society treats everyone as equals the more civilized it is. (Equal rights. Equal protection. Equal pay for equal work. Equal punishment for equal crimes.)

But treating everyone as equals is not the same thing as treating everyone exactly the same.

If we treated everyone the way that extroverts want to be treated then people who are introverted would suffer.

Treating everyone as if they were exactly the same is pseudo-civilization.

Civilization is an emergent property that arises whenever you have a large number of objective human beings interacting with one another. Civilization is what separates man from the animals. Humans are (in varying degrees) civilized. Animals are not.

Nothing is good or bad.

Some things are good for certain things and bad for certain things.

Some things are good for life and some things are bad for life.

Some things are good for you and some things are bad for you.

Some things are good for civilized society and some things are bad for civilized society. You must always specify what it is good or bad for.

Sanity, civilization, and education are the important things. Everything else in life is just a matter of personal preference. As long as you are sane, civilized, and educated then you should, within certain broad limits, be free to live the way you want surrounded by other like-minded individuals.