Thread: Green Paint on Lincoln Memorial

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Remember when that nut slashed Da Vinci's Mona Lisa ? Up until then you could reach out and touch masterpieces. Even later, in the mid 1980s I used to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and stand right in front of Van Gogh, Manet, Rubens, Rembrandt. Statues by Auguste Rodin ....... could be right there with them.

When I was a kid you could go to the park alone, team up with other kids, and play until dark. Go trick or treating on Halloween and eat the candy you got without worrying about poison, razor blades or needles stuck in apples. When my kid went trick or treating we went with her. Threw away the stuff she was given and furnished stuff we had bought for her instead. Forget about going to the park alone. And we didn't lock our doors when I was kid. Now I even carry a gun in the house.

You're dead on, Jimmy. What did society share back then that it does not share now? Objective Truth. We're experiencing the infancy of moral relativism at present. There is no real objective morality any longer. What does this mean? I decide what's right for ME. We've all been crying collectively like little toddlers about our rights to be able to do whatever each person wants to do with "no judgement" from anyone else. Anything goes. How dare you judge me. How dare you try to constrain my behavior. It's me, me, me. It's all about.....me.

You were taught to respect others, Jimmy; as was I. Growing up, if you chose incorrectly not to respect others, I'm certain there were serious consequences for you, as there were for me. There are no real consequences any longer. Because, hey, it's everyone else's fault but mine.

Unfortunately, as a society, we have to come to terms with how we've allowed it to develop and we have to take our medicine. We're still in the shock stage. At some point, maybe sooner than we'd expect, however, with no external moral compass to point our way forward, it should become tiresome and pitiable to all but the imbecile to feign shock and disgust at someone else's behavior. After all, "no judgement".

Throwing morality out the window only to then, at times cling to it, is like trying to grab air. I'm not a humanist, so I'm afraid no one will be able to convince me that humanity can evolve into a place where we all get to do whatever we want but still hug each other with respect and sing kumbaya in Godless Utopia.

ChrisL