Criminals are a small minority in any semicivilized society.

"You know Nerado mentioned several times the 'semicivilized fishes of the greater deeps'?"

"Special-operations" forces offered a real and semicivilized alternative to the more organized and destructive forms of violence associated with conventional armed forces.

Your race spent many centuries as semicivilized beings, mentally ready to ask sophisticated questions, but completely - lacking access to transistors, quantum switches, or binary ' processing.

Oscar, so far as I know, your culture is the only semicivilized one in which love is not recognized as the highest art and given the serious study it deserves."

Warfare seems universal among primitive types - indeed, it is not so long ago that our own cities, few in number though they are, ceased fighting each other and combined against the semicivilized fishes of the greater deeps."