[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Horizon

It all goes in circles...

We had Victorian "values" that said that people must be fully clothed when swimming in the sea (a bit of a mirror to some Islamic values today) and sent starving little children to Australia for stealing food and just before that, hung them.

Today at the press of a button anyone, including children, can access hard core pornography while their parents stuff burgers and chocolate down their throats.

My parents who were born during WW2 grew up with staunch 50s conservative values which made everything safe and pleasant for all as long as you didn't dare question anything. That inflexibility led to the sixties... where they did question everything and a anything goes culture appeared.

Today we're in the middle, I think. Very conservative on some things (and going back more that way, I think) and uber liberal on others.

As an adult I have the right to watch sex, violence and whatever debauchery I want on tv, but the problem is children have this access to and this was her main concern. She would turn in her grave if she had internet access.

My big "beef" today is manners, or lack of them from many people. When I was a kid everyone behaved the same and was polite. NO exception. Now, you never know what you'll get if you ask someone to pick up their rubbish they've thrown on the ground.

Yes, she had a point.

I totally agree.

Bad manners appear to be infectious too, both on & offline as polite people are dragged down to the standards of those around them.