Isn’t it mind-blowing?

Question

Of course, we in the West have democracy and all those gaudy trappings that go with it, but are we really in a position to lecture people outside our barricaded world on how they should lead their lives, taking into account the extreme depravity we seem to have slipped in: debauchery, pornography, sexual promiscuity, family disintegration, loss of sense of morality etc?

Answer 1

I don't want to sound more republican than I am, but I have to disagree anyways.

Four of the things you've mentioned; "debauchery," "pornography," "sexual promiscuity," and "loss of sense of morality," are subjective and not directly harmful to society or other.

And "lecturing" would seem to be a viable option, even if it does have a bad connotation. Military action, maybe too much, but merely lecturing? We might as well.

Answer 2

Ahh but see the mindblowing part is that we have the abilitiy to lecture them! See it's merely us taking advantage of our freedom to tell people our opinion. It has nothing to do with if we are right and moral people--regardless of our debachery, pornography, and sexual promiscuity.

However you make it sound as if people who don't live in the West don't have pornography (which has been around far longer than democracy). and as if they don't have a loss sense of morality. You don't have to be American to have promiscuity and debauchery--after all Rome fell long before us.