it's not that bad. japan may be the one extreme and the US the other, europe is somewhere in the middle on a sliding scale towards the US. the broken windows th

it's not that bad. japan may be the one extreme and the US the other, europe is somewhere in the middle on a sliding scale towards the US. the broken windows theory fits here. to use the analogy, if a window is broken in japan someone would go fix it unprompted. europe mostly manages to keep broken windows in check. and in the US broken windows have gotten out of hand. the better alternative to social pressure is building community. social pressure means that you are forced to conform because everyone you interact with expects you to. community means that everyone you interact with is your friend.