...help or hinder today's U.S. society?
It is so interesting to see the various opinions. I left the question ambiguous purposely.
This is a wonderful group of people on this site. Your answers, least for me open my mind further and for that I thank you all.
Yes, "old fashioned" isn't always the best. Yes, there was much sexiest pain and suffering placed on women and for that I pain. "Old fashioned morals and values make me blindly believe men were gentlemanly and women were greatly loved and cherished. Rude behavior wasn't the for the day and good, clean, strong ethics existed.
Yes, I know... a fantasy.
Depends on the morals. I’m not going to go to the Wizard of Oz when talking to my kids about how to act with family no matter how much they want to be independent with their lives, but I can use Cinderella when talking about what to do in oppressive and/or difficult personal situations when the other person is clearly in the wrong.
Seems to me in the world of Donald there are no morals or values anymore no matter whether they are "old fashioned" or not.
You have your values and morals and I have mine.
We should live our lives with integrity because that benefits us.
@dare2dream It is just a pity that so many do not understand that word.
Old fashioned such as The Golden Rule or what?
The Platinum Rule invites people to “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them,” which is a better rule, I think.
Before I could answer that, I would need you to define what "old fashioned morals and values" means. Because the morals and values of people in the U.S. a hundred years ago included treating blacks as second-class citizens, not allowing women or blacks to vote, having children work in factories and coal mines, and criminalizing homosexuality. Go back even further and it only gets worse.
Exactly. 'Old fashioned morals...' is just bs and panders to the 'things ain't what they used to be back when we was....'
The idea that somehow people were more honest, decent, whatever in some long gone golden age is just rubbish. Usually only believed by that strange group of white men that having lost their rights to be sexist, homophobic, racist etc now beleive they form some kind of repressed group