Changes

===China===

===China===

China's long recorded history testifies to both various degrees of moral virtue as well as moral declension and its consequences, and to some degree of reform. Recent evidence indicates moral degeneration is seen an increasing problem in China today. One influential contemporary moralist comments, "The problem isn’t that people don’t follow moral standards; the problem is that there no longer exist moral standards.”  He attributes the loss of morality to five decades of atrophy under Communist political power, plus two decades of corrosion under the money and wealth brought by the Western market economy. <ref>Jiang Qing, quoted by  Xujun Eberlein in ''China Has A Morality Crisis'', NAM, Commentary, Jan 23, 2008</ref>  

China's long recorded history testifies to both various degrees of moral virtue as well as moral declension and its consequences, and to some degree of reform. Recent evidence indicates moral decline is seen an increasing problem in China today. One influential contemporary moralist comments, "The problem isn’t that people don’t follow moral standards; the problem is that there no longer exist moral standards.”  He attributes the loss of morality to five decades of atrophy under Communist political power, plus two decades of corrosion under the money and wealth brought by the Western market economy. <ref>Jiang Qing, quoted by  Xujun Eberlein in ''China Has A Morality Crisis'', NAM, Commentary, Jan 23, 2008</ref>

===Roman Empire===

===Roman Empire===