Question: How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenents?

The modern culture has many laws to restrain us from committing evil to others. These laws are highly based on the Ten Commandments. The below are the Ten Commandments:

1. Have no other gods before me.
2. Have no idols and worship no idols.
3. Do not take the Lord’s name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
5. Honor your mother & father.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not lie.
10. You shall not covet.

This list conveys the central ideas of all the laws of any nation. The next list is of the Sawi tenants.

1. The survival of the fittest.
2. Honor your in-laws.
3. You shall murder, but none from your own tribe.
4. Treachery is prized.
5. Peace child is the ultimate ‘peace.’
6. Worship the river spirits.
7. Be wary of friendship.
8. Eating the flesh opens eyes to the good and the evil.
9. The unknown/unexplained is supernatural.
10. Become friends with the Tuans.

A simple glance at the two lists allows you to find a difference between these two lists; the former restrains us from more troubles, while the latter provides a straight way to a chaos. God has provided these rules for the protection of the humanity from itself. However, the Sawi tenants seem to be made for a tribe’s own survival over other tribes. In addition, the Sawi tenants are highly ‘porous’ in the way that they have open spaces for evil deeds to live. Such great honor in in-laws, combined with the concept of prized treachery, waness was created.
If one is still uncertain of what’s the difference between the Sawi tenants and the modern culture, one can simply look around oneself, and then take a trip to a primitive village where headhunting is prevalent. Following the Ten Commandments, our society has grown into the current state, with a systematic, comparatively safe and protected environment. On the other hand, the Sawi constantly move their home in order for protection from other tribes and even acquired the concept of cannibalism as an honorable act. The modern society and the Sawi village can not be any more distinctive.