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M'Bob
·As some have mentioned, yes, one’s own perspective and experience informs one’s opinion.
I remember as a kid growing up in New York in the 1960’s, that no one locked the doors to their cars. My grandfather told me that, when he was a kid in New York, around the turn of the last century, people didn’t even lock their apartments. Why? Because you were taught that if something doesn’t belong to you, you don’t take it. If you found a wallet with money in it, you returned it to the owner, with all the money intact.
So, at least in America, have things been incrementally slipping in a bad direction? Yes, they have. Why? That’s a complex topic that’s above my pay grade. My suspicion is: must be related, at least in part, to increasing wealth disparity.
I remember as a kid growing up in New York in the 1960’s, that no one locked the doors to their cars. My grandfather told me that, when he was a kid in New York, around the turn of the last century, people didn’t even lock their apartments. Why? Because you were taught that if something doesn’t belong to you, you don’t take it. If you found a wallet with money in it, you returned it to the owner, with all the money intact.
So, at least in America, have things been incrementally slipping in a bad direction? Yes, they have. Why? That’s a complex topic that’s above my pay grade. My suspicion is: must be related, at least in part, to increasing wealth disparity.
