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has the civilised world become too civilised to the point where we are unable to defend ourselves against barbaric elements for fear of?

being criticised.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    yep

    we've become feminised/emasculated/neutered w/e you want to call it.

    europe especially, i don't really know why, maybe its b/c we are sick of war after enduring two of the worst & most deadly wars ever ( ww1 & ww2 ), that we've embraced 'peace' & 'civilisation' at any cost, but its killing us.

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    See what happened is that the so called "civilized" world has been f*cking about with the rest of the world, trying to make them "civilized" in the exact same way we are. Unfortunately this usually involves a lot of death and bombs which we don't see a lot of.

    Anyway, these people we were trying to "civilize" get really pissed off and conclude that the best thing to do is just go full barbarism. So we use that as an excuse to "civilize" them some more with more death and bombs. But this just pisses them off more so they attack back. So we try to "civilize" them more with death and bombs... And so on and so on.

  • 7 years ago

    Part of the cost of civilization is cool, calm, measured (slow) reaction to crises.

    If savages and barbarians attack by surprise, first of all, one has to wonder just how "savage-like" and "barbarian-like" they really are that they successfully created a powerful element of surprise. But assuming they accomplished that, a well-rounded and well-prepared civilization should be (should be) able to dispatch them in relatively short order. But not without some loss.

    Of course, not all civilizations throughout history, nor even today, are "well-rounded" by my definition. I see a lot of holes in the defenses of some societies that want too much to be seen as civilized, much to their own detriment. Civilization has a way of making some of its subjects somewhat disconnected from the realities of the most primal human natures. We tend to forget...

  • 7 years ago

    Yes your right , when the ethnics riot in this country we give in to their demands and go all out to prove we are not racist in order to keep the peace. The indigenous peoples of Britain are in the wake of an invasion bought about by ludicrous immigration policies and ideologies of successive governments.

    Atb Red

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Your right Texas lack of medical knowledge and expertise has caused the spread of an infectious disease ...Ebola.

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