The modern world is often characterised as a "me" world where "self" is more important than "group".
Our guest speaker on Monday night, Salvation Army's Major Ian Kilgour, presented a much different world view.
"A society is just when it demonstrates values that enhance life for all."
With values that include service, community, social investment, social capital and social inclusion the overlap with what Rotary as an organisation stands for was clear.
The challenge of course, in what feels like an increasingly divided and divisive world, is to ensure those values are to the forefront of how we think and act.
As Mahatma Gandhi said: “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
