When did morals go away?

[john7994]

Side isn't a good word. But in society the "pendulum" swings from times where we feel morals are lacking to times we feel are better and less crappy stuff going on. Like folks deemed the 50s great time to live but the 60s more of an immoral time to live. I wasn't born yet so I dunno. But I remember that example being used about the pendulum, in sociology class. But there is a lot of crap going down now, like old ladies getting randomly punched on the street, gals getting assaulted on the subway, CVS getting looted....to smaller crappy things like folks cutting lines or folks driving like jerks on the roads.

I don’t disagree, those all seem to be bad examples of worsening human behavior, but I have no data which says its better or worse now than a decade or two or three ago. I do see a lot of talking points on the TV that would have me believe some things are true. But the TV says a lot of clever things.

I am not understanding where social media itself is the cause of growing immorality to your original comments. But, I could argue it amplifies a lot of garbage. In the end, It’s a tool and people are using that tool (for good or bad) - is the tool telling good people to do bad things - or are people just being the people they have always been, or are there just bad people using the tool to convert good people into doing bad things?

The gun folks would say leave the tool alone (or maybe not - dunno) - but that’s a different discussion.

 

[DCLMP]

Just saw this on our local news as well as CNN. Makes me sad to think how soooo many prominent people seem to have little to no morals nowadays. What happened to personal integrity? Integrity….doing the right thing even when no one is looking.

Why do people also think it is ok to lie, cheat, steal, bribe, etc? Every time you turn around it is another story like this. I know there have always been people who will do the wrong thing. It just seems like it is a heck of a lot more prevalent in our society nowadays.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/politics/high-end-brothel-network-arrests

Are you really shocked by this? Maybe the idol worship of politicians will end with more stories like this. The majority of people in power are corrupt. It's always been that way. They are very successful in dividing us I will give them credit for that.