Civilization is my country

*Stand for ideas not organizations. (Especially organization led by people you don't know personally)*

A civilized society is a society whose laws do not favor any one person or any one group of people.

The more a society treats everyone as equals the more civilized it is.

* Equal rights. Equal protection. Equal pay for equal work. Equal punishment for equal crimes.

But treating everyone as equals is not the same thing as treating everyone exactly the same.
If we treated everyone the way that extroverts want to be treated then people who are introverted would suffer.
Treating everyone as if they were exactly the same is pseudo-civilization.

Civilization is an emergent property the monetary system which is a an emergent property of psychology which is an emergent property of biology which is an emergent property of chemistry which is an emergency property of particle physics.

Civilization arises whenever you have a large number of objective human beings interacting (especially buying and selling goods and services).

Within civilization there are no sides. Civilized people understand that not everyone is going to want to live the same way that they do. Civilized people compromise in order to live together or they choose to live apart.

Civilization and objectivity are the only important things. Everything else in life is just a matter of personal preference.
As long as you are civilized and objective (and sufficiently educated) then you should, within certain broad limits, be free to live the way you want surrounded by other like-minded individuals (and separated from all the people that dont want to live the same way you do).

## Social privilege

*When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression*
In anthropology, **privilege** is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. In sociology, privilege is the perceived rights or advantages that are assumed to be available only to a particular person or group of people. The term is commonly used in the context of social inequality, particularly in regard to age, disability, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and social class. Two common examples involve having access to a higher education and housing.

Some academics highlight a pattern where those who benefit from a type of privilege are unwilling to acknowledge it. Derald Wing Sue has referred to such denial as a form of "microaggression" or microinvalidation that negates the experiences of people who don't have privilege and minimizes the impediments they face.

McIntosh wrote that most people are reluctant to acknowledge their privilege, and instead look for ways to justify or minimize the effects of privilege stating that their privilege was fully earned.
The concept of privilege calls into question the idea that society is a meritocracy, which researchers have argued is particularly unsettling for Americans for whom belief that they live in a meritocracy is a deeply held cultural value, and one that researchers commonly characterize as a myth.

In *The Gendered Society*, Michael Kimmel wrote that when privileged people do not feel personally powerful, arguments that they have benefited from unearned advantages seem unpersuasive.

The most extreme form of social privilege would be not being subject to societies laws at all. (See Sovereign citizen)

* While based at an embassy or consulate, an intelligence agent is protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity. (See Agent handling)

### Supremacism

From Wikipedia:Supremacism

Supremacism is an ideology which holds that a certain class of people is superior to others, and that they should dominate, control, and subjugate others, or are entitled to do so. In their view laws exist solely for the supremacists to rule over the inferior people and therefore do not see themselves as subject to society's laws. See Sovereign citizen and Organized crime.

The supposed superior people can be an age, race (classification of human beings) species, ethnicity, religion, gender (social construct), sexuality, language, social class, ideology, nation, or culture, or any other part of a population.

## "Sin"

There is no such thing as moral or immoral behavior (and therefore no such thing as sin). There is only civilized and uncivilized behavior.

Calling something a 'sin' when what you are trying to say is 'uncivilized behavior' is an example of *missing your mark* (the mark you personally set for yourself).