Is There an Illusion of Moral Decline?
The thing with morals is that they are not worth a lot as they just express what a given slice of society at a given place&#x2F;time deems morally right. If you really wanna dive into what is right and wrong you have to discuss ethics.<p>It is for example about universally answering the question whether it is good&#x2F;bad to give someone a bad time for having been born with some characteristics they couldn&#x27;t influence. E.g. left handedness — is it okay to prevent left handers from using their left hand to do things? Probably not (yet, a while ago this was seen as morally right). The only argument people had against left handers was &quot;it is weird&quot; and the more it became clear that forcing left handers to be right handed can have severe consequences and that a certain percentage of the population is always left handed the clearer it became that it was wrong to try to change them.<p>In that case the moral person is the one that &quot;just follows the tradition&quot; but ends up being spectacularly wrong. Always thing about the questions universally, e.g. are people born into this (do they have a choice), is there harm from them supressing what they are born into? Is there harm to others in them being themselves? Ethics will guide you towards a good answer, morals will not.