Traditional morality is inestimably important. Without it, all kinds of injustices and oppressions against individual persons are sanctioned.
The abandonment of traditional morality leads to expropriation of private property, heavy taxation, theft, waste, compulsory association, totalitarian thought control, sexual exploitation, homeless children, fraud and dishonesty, disloyalty to family, ever increasing government power and control, envy, indiscipline, laziness, individual irresponsibility, indecency, rudeness, impoliteness, social engineering and genocide, not to mention impiety.
The values of a society derive from its spiritual and moral foundations. When those foundations are destroyed a vacuum exists and people can be manipulated according to the ideology and power ambitions of ruling elites.
True human progress lies in a society organised around freedom - the liberty of the individual, subject to law based on and social institutions supporting, individual responsibility. Honesty finds its embodiment in law, but law which seeks to regulate dishonest conduct cannot be effective in a society where the majority of individuals do not value honesty.
There are values which are important for the future of a society which cannot be embodied in law such as the family which is the basic unit of society. When family life disintegrates, society disintegrates. As men and women become too individualistic they think of their own needs and forget their children and spouses. Excessive individualism makes it impossible to build human relationships which are essential for enduring marriages and strong families.
Increasing incidences of marriage breakdowns, permissive are related to a lack of commitment and the inability of a rising generation to build enduring relationships. The institution of the family cannot be established by law. It can be supported by law .Herein lies the importance of a social morality outside the law, the importance of which is recognised by the vast majority of the people.
The family has been an important part of all civilisations and of primitive cultures too. Parental care and nurture is important even in the animal world The family provides meaning, continuity and purpose in the lives of individuals. It provides a nurturing and protective environment in which children can progress to adulthood and the best environment for the care of the aged, the disabled and the young.
Traditionally, the family has played an important part in the maintenance of law and order. It is not possible to have policemen on every street. Control which parents traditionally exercised over children (a control which is no longer effective in the same way) helped to maintain law and order. The breakdown of the family and the decay of discipline in the schools which the progressivists (so-called) have engineered has contributed in a very large measure to the groW*H of teenage vandalism, crime, drugs and alcoholism. The escalation of these problems corresponds to the decline of the family and familial discipline and to the groW*H of permissiveness.
The decline of the importance of the family unit creates not only social consequences but also economic effects.
When these primary services are greatly reduced, or even totally disappear, they do not cease to be essential. Children have to be fed, cared for and educated. The sick must be treated, the old must be assisted. All that happens is that the services of great economic value, once performed by the family without economic cost, are transferred to the government, which has to pay handsomely to ensure that the same services are provided by professionals, teachers, doctors, nurses, social and welfare workers, the proprietors and staff of hospitals and homes for the aged and other individuals and institutions. This is one of the basic reasons for the explosion of welfare expenditure which has far-reaching economic and budgetary consequences.
There is no society which can survive without strong family relationships. is it too late for the present civilisation to realise this?
Edited by angie.4u - 14 years ago
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