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Originally Posted by gfmucci
Like rose bushes and toxic weeds, people who mock whatever "values" we have left won't be on my agenda, either.
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I don't mean to pick on gfmucci but it got me thinking about values in our country. On this website I read an awful lot about how earlier generations were kinder or more courteous or had more character. Usually the writer is referring to his/her own generation as being the best at it. Maybe that is natural but...
If you think about it what you are saying is that your grandparents and great grandpareants etc. were WORSE at it than you. And since your generation every new one has gotten WORSE at it. So what you are saying when you spout this crap is that ONLY your generation knew any manners or had any character or morals. At what point did these values stop growing? When your generation was born?
I don't feel that way. I know of many young people who live a very moral and decent life and participate in society in many beneficial ways. I think back to my early childhood and I saw bathrooms labeled 'whites only' or race riots in Detroit. Or women making one half or 3/4 of what men made in the same jobs. A woman executive was hard to find. Or young men being drafted into a war that they didn't feel was right just because the government said so. The list goes on and on.
I'm not so sure that our values were any better 'back in the day'.
"Just my opinion - I might be wrong" - [Dennis Miller].