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2016 Postmortem

stellanoir

(14,881 posts)

5. Welp

Reply to cali (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:06 PM

Jan 2016

Plenty of cultures prided themselves as being "civilized" and lauded it over gentle indigenous they deemed as "barbaric" in order to exploit them.

Yet perhaps what I'm trying to allude to as civil behavior is basic human decency & the golden rule.

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Duhhh. . . ."political correctness" = basic civility [View all] stellanoir Jan 2016 OP

yes - respect and consideration KT2000 Jan 2016 #1

yeah for sure stellanoir Jan 2016 #2

Not always. cali Jan 2016 #3

Welp stellanoir Jan 2016 #5

Not entirely true. TM99 Jan 2016 #4

Wow !!! stellanoir Jan 2016 #6

Things can get out of hand TM99 Jan 2016 #7

Forcing anything is invariably counterproductive. stellanoir Jan 2016 #8