We have different vices—for all the talk of moral decay this generation doesn’t own people—nor do we glorify or tolerate lynchings. I’d say that’s a leg up on our forbearers
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Modern people often look at the flawed morals/virtues of the past without context. Meanwhile, previous generations have historically and consistently accused their children/grandchildren of moral failure. So the answer is C, as the concept of what is or is not "virtuous" evolves.
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Some virtues were more valued in the past than today and vice versa.
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True virtues and sin have been have been ignored if not scorned for 50 years.
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Impossible to answer.
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Just as flawed, just as prone to sin, but I’m not sure we even know what virtue is anymore, or how to develop it, or why
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Thinking quantitatively, looking globally, little has changed.
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As adult I was "shamed" into reading Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics (I am science geek and had not read any philosophy age < 40) and was surprised that in more than two millennia the personalities of humans and their approach to good and evil has hardly changed.
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You know the generation of the Bible wasn’t terribly virtuous either . . .
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What’s changed is which non-virtuous acts folks are willing to make public.
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