"The stability of a society depends on how it responds to the extremes of human behavior."

I agree with the claim that how stable a society is depends on how it reacts to both the extremes of human behaviour,positive and negative.

If we go back in time to see how society gradually evolved, we'll see that the very basic reason for the formation of societies was to exercise a controlling influence on human behaviour. Early man began to hunt animals in groups. These groups became the tribes.Each tribe was governed by a set of primitive laws. Perhaps it was forbidden to kill a member of your own tribe. Also positive behaviour was rewarded,in the form of titles etc. These tribes gradually metamorphised into today's societies governed by a much more comprehensive set of laws.

There are different types of societies in the world today. On one hand we have the liberal Western societies and on the other we have fundamentalist societies like in Afghanistan. In fundamentalist societies, we often find brutal punishments for crimes. A thi...