When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
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The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Society is better off without certain people.
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
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