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Summary Main thesis: Moral decline is the main reason why we have suicidal terrorism, a high rate of crime, extensive hard-drug use, violence in entertainment, worldwide poverty, family & school dissolution, and so forth. But why is there moral decline in these prosperous times? Principally because of ethical relativism - the view that no ethical principle can be proven true, there being no provable limits to individual behavior. But isn't such a society telling its social deviants to do whatever they want (or can get away with)? It must expect crime, hard-drug use, etc. This book attempts to show the causes and cures of the social dysfunctions we are suffering from. Chapter 1 - A brief summary (4 pp.) of what Society at the Crossroads will attempt to do. Chapter 2 - A review of western history, stressing that ethical relativism has been constantly rising in the last 1,000 years. Chapters 3 & 4 - Complete substantiation that our current society is characterized by all the social dysfunctions listed above (and more). Chapter 5 - A brief rebuttal of commonly-held explanations of these dysfunctions. Chapter 6 - A brief rebuttal of formal explanations of these dysfunctions that have been advanced by various well-known social analysts. Chapter 7 - The uncovering of the most important statement ever made. Chapter 8 - The application of this statement to the proof of an ethical standard of equal rights. When we abhor murder, slavery and robbery, we are according to others their equal rights to life, liberty and property, but this abhorrence is more than a mere personal opinion; it must be proven, and the proof has eluded thinkers from the beginning of time. Chapter 9 - When equal rights is applied to economics, we can create many new opportunities for everyone, especially the poor - but this has got to be spelled out carefully. Chapter 10 - Summary and conclusion. (Society at the Crossroads is reader-friendly and jargon-free. It is written for the average serious reader.) Read the first chapter for free!