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Originally Posted by graciegirl
When I read "sign of the times" I thought of how different general morality is now from what it was thirty years ago and more. We never locked our doors and trusted people we knew because the trust was warranted. Now it seems that first smart people to take from someone is the winner. I read that there are those who think it is just fine to steal from retailers, they are greedy, I read. Also fine to put one over on big business if you can, they don't need all that money. I cannot, CANNOT imagine what law enforcement people have to deal with and now be barraged with criticism for expecting people to follow orders when they are arrested. I know. I know. Some LEO's aren't good people, but I think that we are going to Hell in a Handbasket as a society. I do not think...that people are as moral and ethical as they once were. I blame two things; Children don't get to stay home with a parent for three to five years like they used to and Catholic schools don't teach the way they used to, the ones that still are there and neither do public schools. It was not above any of my primary school teachers to give a heated ethics lesson to a kid who stole something, back then. Things have changed. It is a sign of the times.
Now I feel better and know I have not changed your mind one iota.
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Gracie you won't change my mind because you're just flat out wrong. Incorrect. In error. Mistaken.
There are areas in the country where people still don't lock their doors and don't have to. There are communities where kids can play on the streets or in shared back yards without having to worry about being shot or kidnapped. There are lots of towns in this country where families can hang out in a park and not have to worry about drive-by shootings, drugs being pushed on them, or someone robbing their house while they're not home.
You have spent most of your life isolated in some kind of Ohioan nirvana, judging from your numerous descriptions of how you lived pre-Villages.
You assume that your idyllic upbringing is no longer possible anywhere else in the country, and you are - wrong.
It's not only possible, but it's actually true, presently. As Simon and Garfunkel sang: "a man hears what he wants to hear but disregards the rest."
The rest of the world beyond your hometown and the Villages exists, and it is filled with a myriad of cultures, communities, diversity, neighborhoods, of all kinds. From the worst rat-infested criminal-laden slums to the poshest exclusive gated supermansions, and everything inbetween.