Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.