We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.
In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
Authority. The antithesis of science.
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.