I really hate when people say things like, "society is killing people" or "society is the reason people hate themselves". I think it's because people want to turn it into an us-against-them sort of situation. It does make it easier to get on with your life when nothing is actually your fault, when all you have to do is say, "society is ruining everything". But, in all honesty, that is really not the case.
I am finding quite difficult to express exactly what I mean. Society has done nothing wrong. I am not sure what society people are talking about (judging by the vagueness of the use of the word, I'm guessing just human society), but I don't ever recall society making the unified decision to make people feel horrible about themselves. It is not society that is bullying people. It is not society teasing fat people, or making fun of homosexuals, or any of it. It is multiple individuals within society. It is not a community of people, it is just a lot of separate people making bad decisions all on their own.
I am a part of society. You are a part of society. Almost every single person who has ever hated society is a part of society. Just because there are terrible people out there, does not give anyone the right to blame everything on the whole of society. This is not an us-against-them situation, this is a human-against-human, or maybe even self-against-self situation. Blaming society is the easy way out, but it's not a way out, it is just ignoring what's actually happening.
