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At the same time, it can appear that we are super-pragmatic at home. A free market economy, the cost effectiveness of the state and a defence budget that one can take seriously – those things are practical and value-based at the same time, as is the fact that the government has guaranteed us extensive freedoms and rights. However, society has to be able to act morally in current conditions. It has not always succeeded in doing so. In addition to being at the top in all kinds of rankings of political and economic liberties and human rights, we also rank among the first in regards to alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV infection, atheism and broken families. Fundamentally good liberties have at times been misused like Gyges’ ring.
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