Good point. Even after the revolution, or whatever, we don't want to become barbarians.

In the meantime, the hypocrisy is sickening. It reminds of an incident from long, long ago. I was in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, and in a big European store in Ibadan. Outside there were beggars with withered legs, sitting on skate-board like devices, pleading "dash me master, dash me" (give money). Surrounding the store was an endless vista of tin-roofed mud huts. Inside there was a matronly British woman asking for donations to a group devoted a preventing cruelty to animals. (To be fair, none of escape this hypocrisy.)