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So you think the value of life is no worse now than 50 years ago ? Show me a
Columbine 50 years ago. Name me a television show that glorified sex, nudity
and violence in primetime for your kids to watch. Tell me about the roadrage
back then, people shooting each other over a lane change.

No it wasn't perfect back then. No all things weren't better. Yes, we have
made great improvements to our society, racially and gender wise. But the
values of this country, as far as what we permit then and now are not
anywhere close. We as a society have blinders on.

<srt@nospam.unt.edu> wrote in message
news:a394mn$56j$1@hermes.acs.unt.edu...
> 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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