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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
The current quality of society is the standard of living of its members. And quite frankly you're rather exaggerating the number of people who work themselves into the ground in the pursuit of wealth they don't spend. Just look at basic facts and figures such as life expectancy, infant mortality, food consumption etc if you still don't believe me that today's society is better than that of eighty years ago.
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If we're talking about 'society' as a general term, then we're certainly better off but I believe that things have begun to detiororate.
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This is my position. Because I believe that those facts and figures
are a factor but they aren't necessarily the be all and end all of what I term to be the quality of society.
I do not think Yahwe is concerned with facts and figures of 'standard of living', he is concerned with society in terms of the quality of people and their mentality towards living and he might be right.
What you've done is taken your own favoured definition of society and run with it. I don't think it's a bad definition as it goes. But from the definition that I inferred from Yahwe's post, I don't see what's he said as being horrifically wrong.