A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

There’s no doubt that our

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as a

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have shifted massively from the

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of our forefathers, especially in the

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50 years. The extent can be argued, but I believe that most

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will agree that there has definitely been a

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.

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is especially true if one takes a closer look at how current

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estimates personal success and attributes

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to individuals. I personally believe that, as a

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, we have traded virtuous living for flashy living. In

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beliefs. I strongly believe the main reason why

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as honour, kindness, and trust no longer seem important is

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of a

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away from

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in today's

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, or, to put it another way, a

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towards secularism. A lot of the so-called "old-fashioned

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" are core

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of the main religions around the world, from Christianity to Islam to Buddhism, and even in Sikhism, honour, kindness, and trust are required from their followers. Since

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naturally pattern their lives to the

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they believe in, it makes sense that they would exhibit, or at the very least try to exhibit, some of the core

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of the

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. Following the same logic, it

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makes sense that the

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believe in

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religions, the fewer of their core attributes they will exhibit. What most

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who

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away from religious beliefs do not realise is that secularism in itself is a

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, has its own

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. Some of the

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of secularism include the pursuit of pleasure and material things, the pursuit of fame, and the pursuit of so-called "happiness" as the sole purpose of life.