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Originally Posted by mickey100
I can see any number of things about your "ethical generation" that I wouldn't be too proud of. Thinking of the Vietnam war, the history of discrimination against people of color in this country; the history of discrimination against women in this country, and so on. The baby boomers started questioning social values and had a more altruistic bent. They formed protests against the Vietnam war, and paved the way for our withdrawal of troops; had heroes like Martin Luther King and oversaw integration; passed laws giving women rights they were entitled to....and each generation that follows will build on the previous generation. I don't think it is valid to say any particular generation has the moral high ground.
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I don't think Gracie was claiming her generation had cornered the market on "moral high ground". What I saw in her post, because I've experienced it, is that our parents and grandparents were tough on crime, managed and raised the kids with Tough Love before it had a name other than "a damn good kick in the pants", it didn't take a master's or PhD in psychology to raise a self-supporting, law-abiding and caring citizen, and we saw some of the juvenile delinquents-in-the-making turn around and do a 180 because a caring disciplinarian adult in their life got thru to them that they were headed for prison or a life of addiction hell.
And by the way, the ones in VietNam era---MY generation--who defied the POLITICIANS who created that mess--and became pot- and heroin-addicted hippies......
The ones who got their butts punished at home by two caring parents turned out to be college educated or steady and dependable tradesmen, model citizens. But the ones whose parents did not CARE enough to get them off the streets and out of cars driven drunk....are either dead by age 50 or are dying of drugs and alcohol combined while filled cancer, emphysema, liver failure, COPD, etc.....and are collecting government (taxpayer-funded) disability and Medicare.
Their protests against the VietNam war were not all that impressive in the long run, because they destroyed their previously brilliant minds and bodies with substance abuse and addiction, and are now living off the government they hated as college students but love now because of the check and housing they get from it.