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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

It's how I was raised. It was pretty shocking to come to this forum and see opinions of people my parents' and grandparents' age, displaying such entitlement attitudes about pretty much every possible topic they could come up with.

I grew up in a comfortable lifestyle - the typical new england suburb where kids walked to elementary school, didn't need to lock our doors (but did at night anyway), everyone knew their neighbors, most families had both parents still married to each other, the male working full time and the woman either stay at home or working part time. Generic White American New England.

And yet somehow, my parents knew enough to instill in me a sense of "doing right because it's the right thing to do."

My grandparents were even more emphatic about it. My grandfather GAVE away his dental care to patients during the depression - not because he had to - but because it was the right thing to do. Often he would be paid in chickens, or bartered services, ice for the ice box. And he was paid that way, because the patients believed it was the right thing to do - even though my grandfather didn't ask or expect them to pay him during that time.

So true and so sad at what goes on. To see and hear what goes on in TV by declared law abiding citizens that are Christian and open minded, not.