When you are civilized, you often hear people complaining about the civility their society offers to people they feel they are not under any obligation to offer civility to. When you are uncivilized, however, well, you don't really complain all that much because for one, it really doesn't do you any God damn good anyway.
Being uncivilized is like taking it back to the way justice was handled on the playground, if you can remember back that far. Justice then was not about what was fair, it was about what you could get away with. There were no juries and no set rules. You survived based on who you knew, what you knew, and what you were willing to do about it.
When you accused someone of a crime in the Viking society, a classic example of one of the most uncivilized people on Earth by modern standards, justice was served up one on one in a pit with a pair of battle axes to the death. Justice always was on the side of whoever didn't end up split in half.
In modern Afghanistan, tribal warlords settle disputes by making the accused walk across hot coals and if the bottoms of his feet blister up, then he is guilty of whatever he is accused of. If he is guilty, he is beheaded.
Now wasn't that easy?
When the uncivilized world gets their own crime-fighting vigilante, what you get, I am afraid, is a far cry from Batman. What you get is a crime-fighter who openly boasts to burning 100 thieves alive in his backyard in 1999 alone.
Zinsou Ehoun, more famous as vigilante leader Colonel Civil Devi, was arrested after the discovery of the mutilated bodies of the two women seized by his associates, prosecutor Nicolas Biaou told state television in the West African state of Benin late Saturday.
``Six people handed over some suspected witches, a lady and her daughter,'' Biaou said. ``A few days later the two women were found dead, mutilated, their heads split and their bellies cut open. Their intestines had disappeared. We have arrested the six people and they have confirmed that they had indeed left the two suspected witches at Devi's home,'' added Biaou.
This dude needs his own comic book.
