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There are many unspoken rules in a slam pit to keep people from getting hurt. The most important is that punk fans are obliged to look out for one another. If someone falls, the nearby people in the pit are required to stop slamming and help that person get up. When girls enter the pit, they are not to be groped or assaulted. Kicking and punching are not cool, though the flailing of arms and legs sometimes can resemble kicking and punching. Punk culture has always been defiant and aggressive. But it also has been cooperative and egalitarian, at its best. Sometimes the rules of the pit are violated by jerks, drunks, and assholes. But almost everyone is aware of the rules. They emerged spontaneously from the culture of punk and from the social networks functioning in front of the stage. They are meant to establish social cohesion even as they allow individuals to express themselves as independent and autonomous agents.

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Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth…. The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are least religious. The associations say nothing about whether atheism leads to positive societal indicators or the other way around. But the idea that atheists are somehow less moral, honest, or trustworthy has been disproven by study after study.


Greg Graffin and Steve Olsen, "Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God"