There is a solid case that the US morality is harmful to children.
To girls in particular, even, but this aspect of feminism does not seem popular today.
2019 2001
USA 16.7 45.0
NL 2.5 7.8
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/teen-births/teenbi...
I just find it funny when prudish initiatives are promoted under pretence of the same.
So, if you take Germany, Californians are:
- happier
- more wealthy
- more innovative
- have fewer mums die
Now, either this means this better critical thinking described isn't manifesting into any life outcomes, or (and perhaps this is a question worth asking), it isn't better after all.
No matter how good life is in other respects, it's tough for some people (myself included) to feel good when the weather is cold, gray, rainy, and dreary for months on end.
Turns out a country can be superior at one thing without being superior at all the things.
* better c-t does not lead to better l-o
* the c-t is worse
If you feel that World Cups are a better measure than maternal mortality rate, then have at it. The measures we choose are arbitrary, so we can just lay them all out. I'm happy to accept relevant metrics if you have them to show. Personally, I think a society with better critical thinking overall would be able to, given resources, reduce the number of dying new mothers but if you believe there is no relationship I am happy to just accept metrics you offer.
Their success is based on cars, an engineering tradition, the US dollar, the biggest local market, DARPA, the protestant religion, competing nation states next door and a hundred other things.
What I personally think the handling and censorship of nudity might actually influence is democratic discourse, mechanisms of what shocks, what should be censored, what works for populism, what is seen as freedom and what ultimately gets elected.
But I do think that being an attractive immigrant destination is a thing to aspire to.
fair enough
> maternal mortality
Don't know about California, but the US beats Europe in the sense of having 3x maternal mortality
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/maternal-mortality-mdgs?c...
> income, and wealth
fair enough
> comparable gross product
higher in the US, though a lot of that is because of more hours worked
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-...
> life expectancy
US has stagnated recently, and now about 2 years less
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
Having raised a 3 year old in the Bay Area (SF and Albany/Berkeley), I've anecdotally noticed a lot less of the puritan/sheltering attitude you're talking about than in other places in the US. I'd say a moderate version of 'free range parenting' is actually the dominant trend these days around here.
it does not
it's 11.7 per 100,000 in California and 7 per 100,000 in Germany.
Despite similar spending per capita in healthcare.
> Considering that Californian children are no less sheltered
They come from families that on average are a lot more wealthy than the average German family and live in a much more pleasant weather.
Bit apples to oranges.
Easy mistake to make, though, since you have to be aware of definitional differences.
A start to that is here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/surveillance/CDPH...
But you'll have to go read the guidelines to read the difference.
Anyway your numbers are not better than Germany, but also:
What country has the highest rate of maternal mortality? The U.S. Key Findings: The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries.
Average US mortality rate is 17/100,000
Average European mortality rate is 8/100,000
Remember that in Europe live at least a hundred million more people than in US an it includes much less developed countries than any US State.
Yet the US average is two times worse than EU and 8.2 (EIGHT!) times worse than Belarus (BELARUS!), Poland or my country, Italy.
You know who's got the same stats of US?
Russia. Yes. That Russia.
US maternal mortality rate is the same of Russia, despite spending billions over billions more on healthcare.
Despite being considered a third World country from the American POV.
To put things in perspective for you: Turkmenistan MMR is 10, in Iran is 16, in Tajikistan is 17 (same of the USA).
Can a certain kind of mentality against women bodies considered "unholy" be the cause of it?
Just asking, I don't know the answer.
If this doesn't seem like a stretch to you, by all means continue.
Considering that Californian children are no less sheltered, I find it hard to believe that this effect on thought is meaningful.