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From the NY Times opinion piece of Sept. 12, 2011, If it Feels Right:
"…Smith and company asked about the young people’s moral lives, and the results are depressing.
"It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues…
“…Smith and company found an atmosphere of extreme moral individualism — of relativism and nonjudgmentalism. Again, this doesn’t mean that America’s young people are immoral. Far from it. But, Smith and company emphasize, they have not been given the resources — by schools, institutions and families — to cultivate their moral intuitions, to think more broadly about moral obligations, to check behaviors that may be degrading. In this way, the study says more about adult America than youthful America…”
nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.html?_r=1&ref=davidbrooks
"…Smith and company asked about the young people’s moral lives, and the results are depressing.
"It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues…
“…Smith and company found an atmosphere of extreme moral individualism — of relativism and nonjudgmentalism. Again, this doesn’t mean that America’s young people are immoral. Far from it. But, Smith and company emphasize, they have not been given the resources — by schools, institutions and families — to cultivate their moral intuitions, to think more broadly about moral obligations, to check behaviors that may be degrading. In this way, the study says more about adult America than youthful America…”
nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.html?_r=1&ref=davidbrooks