Are we going through moral decay?

Question

What are the casues? Is it a good thing?

I like well thought out answers, If it's just one or two lines you won't get the points.

Answer 1

Social and moral decay is an old concept. When the Roman Empire began its decay, there was something else ready to subsume it and reform it under another guise and agenda. One of the chief symptoms is the feeling that moral standards have fallen. Generations become accustomed to living according to particular norms and come to view them as 'natural law', anything less is branded 'moral decay'.

With change being inevitable, new ideas don't just float away, they take root and interfere with comfortable orthodoxies. People who feel threatened by this call it moral decay, people who are concerned study it, and those who enjoy iconoclasm promote it as progress. It is probably a mixture of all three. If change holds the seeds of moral decay, then moral stability embodies stagnation.
It has to be remembered also that morality is chiefly a subjective and relative concept, even if it becomes a shared concept in societies.

Answer 2

i'd definitely say so, or at least the united states is. our extremely individualistic society is proving to become harmful, with people only caring for themselves and accumulating their own wealth and possessions and not about their country, voter turnout is plummeting below the 40% mark now and now people are hating bush??? it's our fault he's up there, and nobody else's. nowadays songs are about going out to 'get what's mine' and nothing about the society, the nation, nothing patriotic. i'm not saying it doesn't happen at all, but i mean not as much as it used to. and our individualistic society is causing others to hate us for our freedom and our steady 'americanization' of the world, thus humanity as a whole is also getting more violent. all in all, i just think that people are becoming more and more ignorant to what's relevant. that's just my opinion though.

Answer 3

The primary reason is we are given conflicting, hypocratical rules and laws to abide by, and we are have different set of rules base on your socio-economical status.

The end result is a society that will implode and end in civil war.

Answer 4

I don't know who the "we" are that you're inquiring about.
However; I personally have been doing a first class job of getting there using only my own resources. Carrying the banner has never been easy or popular, but someone has to lead the way..... KTnTexas

Answer 5

Yes. Enough said