Sounds no better than the murder and mayhem wreaked on an hourly basis by our war machine.

Decency didn’t get our native Americans very far — they offered food and acceptance to early white adventurers and got small pox and genocide in return.

As for torture, we excel at selling torture technology to our puppets. Remember shah of Iran and his dreaded Savak? No, we are neither decent nor civilized. Pinker spins a lot of fluff. He’s clever but meh..