I hear so many people complaining about how society is going you know where in a hand basket. I disagree. I think we are MORE moral than 200 years ago. Think about this. It is no longer legal to beat your wife, own slaves, treat children as property, or deprive everyone who is not a white male of civil rights. I can think of many other things that have changed for the better.
2007-12-06 05:41:10 · 12 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct Bajingo. I am being rather parochial with this question. But I do want to say that I see a lot of people in America complaining that we are going down the tubes.
2007-12-06 05:46:21 · update #1
I think that morals are better in some ways and worse in some ways. All the things you list a positive changes but there are others thing that are worse. Like the way people justify the suffering of others like we do when we are at war (even this has been going on forever), the fact that we spend so much money on frivolous thing while many people starve. The fact that teenagers are being used as sex slaves he in America of all places. Racism and Sexism are just as rampant even though not a apparent. So we have made strides in some areas but not all.
2007-12-06 05:48:02 · answer #1 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. It was never MORAL to beat your wife, and slavery in the US was very different to what the term "slavery" meant in Biblical terms. And as far as having a nation ENFORCING human rights, you're assuming that they were only moral at the time these laws were passed. Generations ago, youth were generally MUCH more respectful to their elders; abortion (premeditated murder) was never legally sanctioned and defended as a woman's "right", elders were revered and respected-not stuck in a nursing home like some embarrassment to society; and don't even get me started about "mercy killing". We also have lot's of open, sexually immoral people nowadays, who would have been run out of town for living like they do and flaunting their promiscuity.....drug pushers are idolized in music, and so is a lot of violence. These are just a FEW of the reasons off the top of my head which makes me scream "DISAGREE" with your very naive statement!
2007-12-06 05:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you base "morality" on the Bible, then it is worse today than 200 years ago. We get divorced at the drop of hat, allow gay sex, yawn at unwed teen mothers having babies, tolerate people illegally entering our nation and have porn all over the place.
If you base "morality" on the rights of the individual, it is better today than 200 years ago. We pretty much let anyone do anything as long as it does not involve children and no one gets hurt.
2007-12-06 07:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are comparing the US 200 years ago to the US today. Although I agree with you, you have to look at the whole world. I think the holocaust was worse then anything that happened 200 years before it.
2007-12-06 05:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your right ,but if you rephrased it to read 60 years ago i might beg to differ.
i say this because after WWII ii,there was a golden age where whites had fought side by side with other races of people ,and women had earned the respect of men in the workplace as equal contributers in the war effort.this led to a more understanding and tolerent society ,that still held onto the concept of virtue and fairplay which seems to be waneing as time goes on.
2007-12-06 16:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by joe c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 09:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we are as moral, it is just that the things we could get away with are different to what we can get away with today. I'm sure there are still plenty of people who would own slaves if they could.
2007-12-06 05:46:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. 200 years ago there was slavery. There were summary executions. Orphans were often left to die.
For that matter, our morality is better than it was just half-century ago, as is evidenced by this photo:
(Warning: Shocking)
http://members.aol.com/lupinaccim/lynching.jpg
Anyone who thinks morality is in decline should take a cold hard look at that photo. Notice the people smiling.
2007-12-06 05:44:54 · answer #8 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Technology has allowed us to be evil more efficiently. We could give up misogyny and slavery since we got so good at genocide that we have more than compensated.
2007-12-06 05:46:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that was the victorian era right?
I think we are less sexualy opressed, but there are less children in workhouses and up chimmneys.
You could get executed for pocketpicking.
2007-12-06 05:47:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋