Social Evils
April 21, 2008A report published by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation lists the top 10 social evils in UK society as: decline of community; individualism and selfishness; consumerism and greed, a decline of values, the decline of the family, young people as both victims and perpetrators, drugs and alcohol, poverty and inequality, immigration and responses to it, and crime and violence.
BBC article - Report lists new ’social evils’
It will be interesting to hear what solutions they come up with to tackle these social problems. Change in a society’s ethical values happens slowly and I can’t imagine it can be reversed quickly or easily. Especially if we don’t recognise what the root causes of each problem are. For example how do you deal with the problem of consumerism and greed? A commentator on the BBC website wrote:
“The egalitarian principles of liberty, brotherhood and justice have been consumed by social Darwinist greed”.
Food for thought…
Asalaam o alaikum!
Our Imam gave a wonderful Khutba on how this society resembles the pre islamic Mecca and we should use the Quran and Sunnah to deal with it as Prophet Muhammad PBUH did instead of complaining about it.
A new path of thought.