[
age old morality needs to be updated for modern values]» — CG paraphrase mine @Chad Looks like CQ was the only to really dare to say what morality really is, kudo's for that.
The new and
the old morality are both inadequate.
However,
the old morality can not be discarded out of hand.
The new moralists argue that
the old morality is too rigid and inflexible.
That is why the new morality and
the old morality, taken individually or together, are inadequate.
On the other hand,
the old morality is just as defective, and perhaps even more so.
And we must remember that, no matter how undermined, a remnant of
the older morality provides much of what coherence our society still has.
But his trouble was not with
the old morality.
Living in the age of the pill and other dependable contraceptives, this young man assumed that people like me are still «hung up» on
the old morality.
It is inevitable that there will be confusion and uncertainty, perhaps for a number of years, before some agreement can be reached on what should replace that
older morality.
The real significance of
the old morality language and the new is that they stand as opportunities for judgment and trial.
Something of the deep alienation so prevalent in the US comes across, the reality of millions and millions of people utterly «at sea» — people cut loose from traditional family ties, official institutions, old allegiances,
old moralities, lacking as of yet anything with which to replace them.