The trouble with that, Ivor, is it can easily drift only into "look after number one". I'm not disagreeing about taking responsibility - but taking responsibility means taking responsibility for other people as well.

Not too surprising that it's " 'civilised', 'cultured' societies that have done some of the worst we've seen in the world" - those terms tend to be used to mean technologically sophisticated societies (though of course that's not at all the same thing), and advanced technology makes it much easier to kill large number of people. But Ruanda showed you don't actually need that, if the will is here.