[hearsathought]

> When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on.

That's odd because the prononents of laws, democracy, courts, human rights, etc have shown to be not so civil. So I ask again which centuries?

> We, as a species, are still working on that and civilisation seems both imperfect and poorly distributed.

So no centuries? You made shit up?