The Death of Respect

**HoreTore** · 07-26-2009, 12:30

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

We have some extreme social problems at the moment, but we also no longer execute people, or sanction violence in our society. The problem is that we lack a justification of our morality, not that we don't have one.

Indeedy. Beating your wife in the 50's? Like anyone would care...

**Beskar** · 07-26-2009, 14:07

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Indeedy. Beating your wife in the 50's? Like anyone would care...

Indeed, many things have changed for the better.

As for Happy Slapping, it never used to happen because cell phones were never around and being honest, there are far worse things than Happy Slapping in society.

**rory_20_uk** · 07-26-2009, 14:46

Events are the same, they're now just more "in your face". I imagine that slum dwellers were just as crime ridden hell holes a hundred years ago as the modern estates. The rich still sleep with whores and do drugs, children still get abused etc etc.

The thing is these days is we appear to spend vast sums of money and time wringing out hands about it and wasting money on it rather than trying to remove it from society's view.

**ICantSpellDawg** · 07-26-2009, 15:29

Times have changed every second since the beggining of time. It is an empty statement. Self interested hedonism is the cause of the decay, not individualism. I know plenty of good, well mannered Christians who believe that people should have many rights that arn't jumping up and down drunk with their wangs hanging out of their pants.

You can believe in personal responsibility and that you are individual as it pleases God, which would tend to mean that you should respect the individuality of the rest of his people.

We are empty because we choose to be empty and that will change as soon as heads are removed from asses. This happens from time to time historically and then there is a backlash, as in most things and people because too well mannered.

**rotorgun** · 07-27-2009, 02:47

I think it's in proverbs that it says, there is no new thing under the sun... or something like that. Each generation feels that they are the grander than the ones that have come before them. Really, despite all the changes in technology and so called moral standards, nothing has really changed. The human heart is desperately wicked, who can know it?

As I get older I find myself complaining of the ways in which the "new generation" behaves, sounding ever more like my father before me. When I think about it though, I come to the conclusion that it's all part of the human way in which we grow and learn. The French have a saying- the more things change; the more things remain the same, the more they remain the same, the more things change.

It kind of sums it up for me pretty well.

**Reverend Joe** · 07-27-2009, 05:36

WON'T SOMEBODY, PLEASE, THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!

It's all in your heads, people, relax. If there is indeed a "loosening of morals," then it will have no more impact than the 1920's in America; in other words, none at all, apart from nostalgia. And I think I can safely say that there is no nostalgia worthy of this moment in time. In fact, most of the sensible people I know are just that; sensible, respectful, and not idiotic. Idiots will be idiots, but as long as there are intelligent people the idiots will not destroy society.

As a matter of fact, I am actually far more concerned about conservatism and the limitation of my own freedoms at the moment than I am of a mass collapse of society.