It makes much more sense when you understand this; There is no good in the heart of man. We teach our children to behave a certain way to illicit a result. But there is nothing good that comes from inside humans. We are all base and selfish to our core.

That's why you say 'First is marriage, the whole mate for life thing is such a fraud.' It's a fraud because we can't wrap our minds around the idea of being committed to someone once they stop pleasing us. Every second of our day and every thought we produce centers around pleasing ourselves or bettering our own situation. Why does marriage fail? Because the idea of fulfilling the vows of marriage is so foreign to our nature. If my wife becomes covered in oozing boils, nags at me 16 hours a day and never lifts a finger to do anything in our house should I love her? Of course, I made a covenant to do so. But, because we are such hedonists, our first inclination is to move on when things become difficult.

People say God is a fantasy and that we are a simpletons who follow Him because history says that those who have are no better off than those who haven't. The problem with that is that only person has every wholly followed God. Moses was a murderer, David was an adulter and murderer, Abraham gave his wife away as a prostitute, twice. Who's fault is their failure? God's? No. We are superior to every other creature on the planet because we have the ability to choose to love God. No other organism has that ability. We do not, however, choose God.

If you want to talk history, this philosophy of 'we are god' rotates through civilization ever so often. Something else comes along to replace it for a while. It's nothing new. It's very prevealant inside Christainity. If you sit down with a 'Christian' and explain who the God of the bible really is they would say 'that's not MY God'. Everyone wants to see the baby (Heaven) but no one wants to hear about the labor (life).

To the original point, American culture is as bad as any other, but not worse. I haven't seen anyone gang-raped on a public street today, but for a few bucks I can pay to see a bunch of actors pretend to. Most other countries who rail against America do so because they are jealous of the very thing that makes us as bad as we are; our prosperity.

'For example, how do you act when your at home, at a public place, in private etc. Of the various virtues and morals that you have picked up in your life time, What ones do you use or value in your private life, vs your public life.' Refer to my first point. There should be no discrepancy between private and public virtues.