Inflation and Moral Decline

Citizens of any society, including Iranians, do not need to be John Locke [English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers] to know that they have to make daily efforts to provide for their families. 
The same citizens, however, understand that if their lives or the lives of their loved ones are threatened, they will give away everything to save them. The fact is that life and assets are the only things that should never be threatened; no institution, not even by a government, said Mohammad Sadeq Jenan-Sefat, an economic expert in a write-up for the Persian daily Jahan-e Sanat. The translation of the text follows: