Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
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.
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.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.