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The impact of your values!
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Submitted by Swatcat on October 4, 2025
Your values become your actions, and your actions become your circumstances!!
You really notice this when you travel! It’s easy to see that some people value the least in their society, more than others. That, to me, is the hallmark of an evolved civilisation.
This could be how a society treats its women, its labourers, its old, its physically and mentally challenged.
So, ultimately, a land ends up reflecting the values of the people who live there. Overall.
Loving your neighbour as yourself, or your countrymen, doesn’t come easily. It has to be embedded in your values or it will ultimately lead to a deteriorating society.
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1) A hands-off approach that provides services but doesn't enforce rules. Drug use is decriminalized. People with severe mental illness are allowed to live on the streets, use drugs, and even commit crimes if they wish to do so.
2) A strict approach in which people are institutionalized against their will.
If you go to California (or Seattle), you might see people with untreated mental illness and substance abuse disorder. That is a choice made by voters that ultimately comes from a place of empathy. In fact, California spends more on the homeless and drug addicted than anywhere else in the world.
Unfortunately, mere empathy isn't enough to solve problems. There are other reasons a society might deteriorate besides lack of empathy.
Here in France, the hands-off way tends to be generalized on the territoires BUT drugs use is criminalized. This doesn't give perfect results with drug traffics getting more and more powerful and organized, but the effort to include the people with mental illnesses is also a reality that gives positive and encouraging.
I hope this "balance" way will keep giving long terms results.
The answer is always between the extremes.
I think France (like most places in the developed world) chooses not.
At least in the context of the modern, developed countries.
This starts off with values that people have, who they vote for, what they consider to be boundaries and what they will not put up with! And the values that the powers-that-be abide by!
Sometimes, first world problems, sound like nothing, compared to the issues that third world countries face. However the principles are similar.