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My apologies. The Oxford English Dictionary is the standard dictionary of the English Language and is recognised as such by all educated persons. I didn't realise you were in a different group.Clearly, you've mistaken me for someone who recognizes Oxford University as a universal authority on the definition of morality.
Well, now you know. No apology necessary. Yeah, they lost my interest when they reversed the order of definitions #s 1 & 2. I'm just a second-class (high school graduate) citizen. Don't disappoint yourself by expecting too much from me. I are'nt inteliggentlyke yooal am.My apologies. The Oxford English Dictionary is the standard dictionary of the English Language and is recognised as such by all educated persons. I didn't realise you were in a different group.
You could call this 'authority of morality' the "Taliban".The only way to stop a "freefall" of morality is to create an authority of morality, to document and promote that morality and to viciously punish people who do not conform.
Morals are not just about crime. And while crime has decreased is some areas over the last 20 years violent crime has remained relatively steady over the last 10. Murder has stayed close as well. Rape has gone up, assault relatively the same, Burglary has decreased theft has decreased and Vehicle theft has remained about the same. Since the 60s though everything has increased per 100,000 people. It was 1887 and now is 2580 per 100,000.
As far as drugs are concerned Heroine use has claimed since 2002. Since 2015 Marijuana use has risen as well as cocaine, and Meth, LSD.
There are other moral things that have decayed in America besides crime and drugs since the 60s.
Yep. People arent just putting up with it like in olden days. Thats a moral improvement.More folks are reporting rape, sexual assault nowadays than they did in the past.
Well you talking about the era of increased secularism in the 1960s.. It is hard to say but with a relative free press and relative free speech in Western nations it made the process easier.Do you think the relative freefall of morality that started around the 1960s could have been avoided? How in what kind of way?
I also don't believe we should go back to before the 1960s in all ways, but I believe the traditionalists and conservatives have a point sometimes.
Do you think the relative freefall of morality that started around the 1960s could have been avoided? How in what kind of way?
I also don't believe we should go back to before the 1960s in all ways, but I believe the traditionalists and conservatives have a point sometimes.
In a way, you are correct.Well you talking about the era of increased secularism in the 1960s.. It is hard to say but with a relative free press and relative free speech in Western nations it made the process easier.
Also there was a time when there was a mass expansion of media and the mass growth of rock music and that made a huge impact too.
What fall of morals? Standards for acceptable behavior in marriage are higher. We're much more concerned about all kinds of abusive relationships. While we haven't fixed racism, we've at least started. We're finally starting to take seriously what is known about human sexuality. Morals are doing just fine.
Has nobody here seen Mad Men? The 50's was full of moral hypocrisy, relatively low standards of behavior for men, etc.
Hypocrisy, as La Rochefoucauld said, is the tribute that vice renders virtue. At least a hypocrite has standards to fall short of...
So as long as traditional morality is propitiated with a bit of mint and cumin, that's actually better than people honestly striving to find values than promote genuine human flourishing?
I've seen little of that in recent years. A thing isn't made good just because you're honestly striving for it.
Drugs came into America via the Vietnam war. This is where innocence started to diminish.
Drugs have existed in America well before the 1960's. There were opium dens in America going back to the 1800's for example. The first drug law in the U.S. was apparently passed back in 1875 (banning opium smoking in San Francisco).
Not to mention indigenous populations have used drugs for centuries themselves.
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