Individuals who exhibit a strong moral sense, accept themselves as they are, are deeply democratic in nature, and are willing to act independently of social and cultural pressures would be described by Abraham Maslow as_.

socially confused or mentally damaged

Explanation: According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, No Human no matter how independent cannot exist and prosper without another being to socialize with and our behavior is learned therefore it is impossible to avoid falling into social and cultural pressures, moral sense is also learned so therefore there technically is no such thing as strong morals because everyone has different morals and has a different view of what strong morals are, Humans are also selfish and power hungry and henceforth cannot be deeply democratic. Finally, Maslow's evidence for his statement that no human can be independent is that if you find someone that is self- motivated and independent and give them the slightest amount of positive attention, they'll eventually become obsessed with it doing both positive and negative things for attention or even constantly be around a certain person or group of people that feed them attention, this effect is amplified in Females.        

it depends on which society you are referring to. many civilization performed rituals so the gods would with their growing season but the most well known is that of the aztecs. they would make sacrifices, usually animals, but sometimes humans as well.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.