alt Hacker News> We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes.
Interesting. When were these magical centuries of civility?
> We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes.
Interesting. When were these magical centuries of civility?
> When were these magical centuries of civility?
When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on. We, as a species, are still working on that and civilisation seems both imperfect and poorly distributed.