We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.
Authority. The antithesis of science.
We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.