The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Society is better off without certain people.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.