As your civilization evolves through the ages, you will have to pick minor gods to worship along the way.
"But civilization has evolved, and it's time we abandon, or at least severely limit, the use of capital punishment."
A civilisation, with everything that implies communication, culture, highly evolved social order.
And separately evolved on very different creatures or civilizations.
The last glacial expansion ended about 10,000 years ago, and all civilizations evolved later.
Like most laws in this city, this one was designed to protect a civilization evolved over centuries.
Your species, your civilization might not even have evolved yet.
They have no right to spoil what can be the most agreeable social institution that civilization has evolved.
But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve?
Socialists are wrong because they disregard the fact that modern civilization naturally evolved and was not planned.