Topic : 07/25 "What Would You Do?"

I hear all of you say that you would give the cashier her money back, so would I and have several times, but would you stop a robber? or interupt a fighting couple?  I have 4 small children and would not want to put them into harms way since they first and foremost my responsibilty.  What if that person retaliates?  Does that mean that I have poor morals?

Pennylady, I concur heartily with your 1st 2 sentences. As one old friend of mine often said, "The Good Old days weren't really that good."

However, I'm less convinced about the 3rd. What has happened in the last, I'd say, quarter-century or so is the rise of "Me, Me, Me" and the continued chase of the Almighty Dollar. In some quarters, we're almost back to the "(Not So) Good Older Days" when the robber barons held sway...Can you say "Enron?"

My daughter moved in with her boyfriend accross the street from us recently. Their children were removed from them because of sexual abuse and the boyfriend has been accused of doing it.

He has not been proscuted for lack of evidence.  I know a person is presumed innocent intil proven guilty so here is the do or don't of it.  I know the situation do I tell the manager of our duplexes of the high possibility him being a child molester being as there are so many children on our block or do I say nothing because nothing has yet been proven other than the children one 3 the other 11 has said he did it and the 3year old had physycal evidence of it. He has not been charged.  The case is still open.

To answer your last question 1st, no, absolutely NO; but slavery was supposedly made illegal in 1865; the poster to whom you were responding was blasting the 1960s. For too many people, the oft-romanticized "good old days" were circa 1955, somewhere after WWII but before civil rights, feminism and hippies took over the landscape...you know, sex, drugs, and rock & roll...

...and sexism, racism, etc. are alive and well, even in the 21st century...we're more subtle about it now (it's just not legislated). In fact, if you believe one article (I believe it was an AP wire story yesterday; I read it in my local paper), intolerance in its many forms is growing, rather than receding. Some safety nets for the least advantaged are being dismantled.

Overall, if you're comparing ethical behavior as a society in  2007 vs. 1957, I'd say that the jury's out. 2007 vs. 1907, however? 2007's more ethical, hands down, in spite of the Enrons. Jim Crow is gone. Women can vote. There are safeguards in place now for the least among us that were nonexistent a century earlier.

To answer your last question 1st, no, absolutely NO; but slavery was supposedly made illegal in 1865; the poster to whom you were responding was blasting the 1960s. For too many people, the oft-romanticized "good old days" were circa 1955, somewhere after WWII but before civil rights, feminism and hippies took over the landscape...you know, sex, drugs, and rock & roll...

...and sexism, racism, etc. are alive and well, even in the 21st century...we're more subtle about it now (it's just not legislated). In fact, if you believe one article (I believe it was an AP wire story yesterday; I read it in my local paper), intolerance in its many forms is growing, rather than receding. Some safety nets for the least advantaged are being dismantled.

Overall, if you're comparing ethical behavior as a society in  2007 vs. 1957, I'd say that the jury's out. 2007 vs. 1907, however? 2007's more ethical, hands down, in spite of the Enrons. Jim Crow is gone. Women can vote. There are safeguards in place now for the least among us that were nonexistent a century earlier.