Why do so many consider us today less "moral" than in the past.

[Freedom Fighter N]

Ah great.
Starting a moral debate with "god exists!". Hahahahaha!
Way to be taken seriously. And if he's so concerned about morals, did he even read the bible? HAHAAHAHAHAAAAA!
Irony at it's best!

Sorry I but couldn't help it.

And oh yeah, the previous gen saying we're so immoral. I'm pretty sure quite a lot of the last gen did as much as immoral things that happen this gen.

 

[Esper]

My father is very religious and when I see him he often talks about the end days and uses things such as gays and others as an example of how "moraless" we've become and says that's what the Bible says.

My question is how can it be when in the past we openly accepted things such as slavery, mass discrimination, lynchings etc. In fact, it's only been in the last 50 years that we've even really started giving people equal rights and such.

Seems like societies in the past were a lot less "moral" then people today.

Your father is probably overlooking the darker aspects of the past and just remembering "the good old days." There are probably some aspects of that which were better. My grandma told me they didn't lock their doors because it was safe enough to do that. I don't know if that's really what they did back then or just how they've come to remember it, but it's probably those specific things which are different now that they're comparing. They're not thinking about the bad things from their younger days because they're too focused on how today is different.

 

[Livewire]

You hit the nail on the head.

Their parents though that their generation was immoral because the young women wore skirts that showed off even an inch of leg. While some moral virtues should remain constant (like generosity, for example), social standards are constantly changing.

And social standards will continue to change and change with time. I'm rather interested to see what my kids or grandkids consider 'immoral'.

 

[Katja]

Your father is probably overlooking the darker aspects of the past and just remembering "the good old days." There are probably some aspects of that which were better. My grandma told me they didn't lock their doors because it was safe enough to do that. I don't know if that's really what they did back then or just how they've come to remember it, but it's probably those specific things which are different now that they're comparing. They're not thinking about the bad things from their younger days because they're too focused on how today is different.

I agree completely with this. The world is better than it was IMO. What with you know, slaves, lack of women's rights, etc. :| Seriously.

 

[JimJams]

Because every generation tends to feel that their standards and ideas are superior to the next, simply because they as individuals were a part of it. It's a lot like 'nostalgia goggles'; the idea that something from the past was better because you associate it with say, the (perceived) simplicity of childhood or simply the flawed and biased memory that most people tend to have about their past. People don't like new things, and feel that older things might be better simply because it was, or they think it was an easier time in THEIR life, when the world may have in fact been just as moral/awesome/not awesome/whatever as it is in the present.

 

[Blue Nocturne]

I remember the good old days when people could own slaves, two gay people couldn't be together without being so badly persecuted, and women had all the rights of a grain of sand. Yeah, those were the days...


*Realises my point has already been made* Never mind.

 

[Zeffy]

In my opinion, people back then had a different perspective of the word "moral" since it was their time; the time when they grew up. As time went by, some of the people made changes, whether they intended to or not, and those people of the olden times say its "immoral" because its not what they grew up with.

/2cents

 

[Zet]

There are plenty about homosexuality:
Leviticus 18:22: "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable."
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
Romains 1:26-27: "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."
1 Timothy 1:9-10 "We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine"

Either you just overlooked them, or you actually haven't read the bible and are just going by what is selectively taught in your church.

fun fact: since the bible was never written in English, people have never been able to 100% correctly translate and fill it in what they think it says.

And I'm pretty sure the bible also said that God loves everyone of his children for who they are. Also the bible says that we are made in his image, so clearly God feels gay at times... actually does God even have a gender? is he human? if so, how did he obtain his Godly powahs? I only ask because the bible never describes him, only "u mad God don't love you? he told me so himself!".

But to answer the topic question itself: I think we're less immoral these days because kids are getting exposed to sexual and violent images at a young age.

 

[Alley Cat]

We aren't less moral so much as we are more accepting. We realize that Gary and Stu being together won't hurt us, so what does it matter if they are? Also, the generation before us is the generation that raised us, so in turn, we get our morals and upbringing from THEM.

But then there are those people who really don't give a **** and go around shooting people up and commiting crimes, because they were never taught right from wrong in some cases. Their parents are just as bad, if not worse, than they are.