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Originally Posted by gfmucci
I think the fact that what was considered "immoral" and relegated to the shadows 40 years ago is accepted "out in the open" today makes the point of our moral decline. The fact that immorality is now "out in the open" and accepted does not make it OK. (unless you are of the moral relativist or irrelevant persuasion.)
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I guess it depends what you consider immoral. Bigotry (against blacks, Hispanics, basically any minority and gays) is immoral today, was accepted 40 years ago. Equal rights was non-existent 40 years ago. To me, the lynchings, beatings, Jim Crow laws were completely immoral. What people do in their bedrooms or other places in their homes is their business. So long as another person isn't unvoluntarily harmed, it is not immoral to me. It may not be what I would want to do, but, then, I there's a lot of things I don't want to do that others do. Child pornography is immoral and considered more so today than it was 40 years ago.
If the willingness to accept others as they are, to let others alone because of their sexual preference or practices is moral decline, then I say we need more of it. Accepting others as they are is not immoral, judging them for being different is (and that includes race, religion, creed, sexual preference) IMO.