To make decisions that affect other people?
To hold public office?
To carry weapons?
To represent his/her country, society, religion, or culture?
My mother, when I was growing up, wouldn't allow us children to be "mean" to animals or to each other or even to tough kids in the neighborhood. She always asked us to imagine how it would feel if someone did that to us. I think she was on to something. Maybe I should ask her if she has any ideas about how to forbid meanness and teach empathy on the scale needed now. God bless you, Myrtle Selma. If you weren't going on 90 years old, I'd nominate you for President.
Can a society that allows cruelty be in turn allowed . . .
To make decisions that affect its own people and people in other countries?
To have veto power in the UN Security Council, the international body charged with preserving world peace?
To keep at the ready a huge military arsenal, including weapons of mass destruction (nuclear weapons)?
To put itself forward as a model for the world?
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