Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend
If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature), what is the civilised standard for the treatment of mass murdering terrorists?
Civilisation has come a long way, even in civilised society, in the treatment of villains.
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