What Nation Is the Most Moral Nation In the World

Well, yes and no. Nations are capable of hypocrisy.

Russia was only one part of the USSR AKA the Soviet Union, which is the country that defeated Nazism. Stalin (for instance) was a Georgian, not a Russian.

What reforms were required of the victims?

Their average income isn’t close to $80,000 a year, but your point has merit. Take Norway off the list. Swedes, however, earn less than we (and 11 other countries) do.

I’d say one of the Nordic countries.

Actually, your link is PPP, which means income is adjusted for VAT and cost of living. In dollars and cents, the average income in Norway is indeed close to 80 000 $. Sweden is lower atm, but they got hit eceptionally hard by the crisis, and grow at about 7 %/year at the moment.

I was going to say that. Russia was probably also most instrumental in the fall of communism, as well, if you want to look at it like that.

I may be biased but I’m going with Canada!

Gay marriage rights, women’s abortion rights, fair and equal public education, access to all required medical care for everyone, respect for the rule of law, hate speech laws, and lack of desire to make war, more into peace keeping.

It’s not perfect, but it does seem pretty moral. Y’know, and polite too!

Sice we’re talking about whether they can afford to give more, it makes sense to adjust for puchasing power parity.

I’m going with the UK for abolishing slavery. Yes, it was well before 1950 but it was so far reaching that I’m going claim it earned enough morality points then to keep it in the lead still.

Countries or nations don’t have morality, people do, and even then there’s no consensus on what morality requires. All in all, this question is utterly unanswerable and I’m amazed that so many posters have contrived to do so anyway.

Countries certainly can have morality in that the laws they make and enforce can agree or contradict what someone feels is right. The fact that there’s no consensus on morality is exactly why this thread is in IMHO instead of General Questions.

ROFL

You have to live here to appreciate how hilarious that is!

Who was supporting the IRA? They were an illegal organisation who operated mostly within Northern Ireland

(and please note, I said MOSTLY)

What’s wrong with not allowing every tom dick or harry to have access to heavy weapons?

Institutional child abuse happens in other countries as well.

Yeah!!

With a little more time and effort, you can be like us. :smiley:

But morality is more complicated than just developmental aid. I would count my adoptive country’s treatment of the Anders Behring Breivik case as a point for being a moral country, because we’re sticking to our principles even though it’s very tempting to throw them all out the window. On the other hand, our increasingly insane immigration policy is a point against… and since it hurts far more people, the net result of these two is a negative for Norway :frowning: