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In dfw.general apt <aptex@nospamhotmail.com> wrote:

> "Family Values", are something we try to instill in our children. To succeed
> or fail do not diminish the intent. The intent is to inject a better set of
> morals in the world that obviously this world has lost track of. Look at the
> values that your parents, and their parents dealt with. If you think they
> were no different than the values of today, someone needs to pry the rock
> off your head. This world is not a better place to live than 50 years ago.

In fact, things are not only better than they were 50 years ago, but
things are MUCH, MUCH, *MUCH* better than they were 50 years ago.

I never have understood why people have this romanticized view of life
in the past, and think things are so much worse now.  What was it like
50 years ago?  Well, for one thing, if you were black you had to sit
in the back of the bus, and had to use separate bathrooms and water
fountains.  Remember that?  Oh the nostalgia...  For another, if you
were female, you had very few options in life --- if you had any
career ambitions you were often seen as a freak and shunned.  Oh yeah,
let's go back to that.

For the most part, the country is heading in the right direction.
Sure, there are some problems, but that doesn't counter the general
good trend.  

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