| Still, those of us who believe in the importance of fundamental human rights and decencies have reasons aplenty for optimism. |
| These include the common moral decencies of integrity, trustworthiness, benevolence, and fairness. |
| This leaves thinking people intimidated and in despair for the decencies they revere. |
| Factory farming has no traditions, no rules, no codes of honor, no little decencies to spare for a fellow creature. |
| Yet the rejection of elemental decencies and self-respect on which their society is predicated amounts to a collapse of civilisation. |
| What can politics do when a growing number of families fail to teach their children a set of common decencies? |
