{"id":920,"date":"2003-07-16T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/07\/16\/moral-confusion\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:34:53","slug":"moral-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/07\/16\/moral-confusion","title":{"rendered":"Moral Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a nagging thought for a while now, something about how our society is beginning to view risk (or lack thereof) to be a central part of morality (and how this is not a good thing). I\u2019ve never been able to articulate it as well as I would like, which is why I was so pleased to run across this essay by Dennis Prager: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/dp20030715.shtml\">Would You Rather Your Teenager Smoke Or Cheat?<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektechs.net?pervert\">download pervert  online<\/a><\/div>\n<p> .<\/p>\n<p>Here are his opening paragraphs, I encourage you to read the whole thing: <i>Decades of lecturing around America and of speaking with parents on my radio show have led me to an incredible conclusion: More American parents would be upset with their teenage children if they smoked a cigarette than if they cheated on a&nbsp;test.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How has this come about? This is, after all, an entirely new phenomenon. Almost no member of my generation (those who became teenagers in the 1960s), let alone a member of any previous generation, could ever have imagined that parents would be angrier with their teenage child for smoking than for cheating.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a profound change in American values. In a nutshell, health has overtaken morality. Or, if you prefer, health has become our morality.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/dp20030715.shtml\">the whole essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a nagging thought for a while now, something about how our society is beginning to view risk (or lack thereof) to be a central part of morality (and how this is not a good thing). I\u2019ve never been able to articulate it as well as I would like, which is why I was \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/07\/16\/moral-confusion\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMoral Confusion\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}