The Moral Standards of Our Nation
In the past morals were mostly guided by religion. Most people
believed strongly in their religion, and followed the rules very
carefully, for fear of sin and punishment. However nowadays, religion
is not such an important factor of life and morals are guided by
personal conscience and to fit in with others. Many things which were
unacceptable in society just a few centuries ago are now everyday life
occurrences.
For example, divorce. Not long ago it was frowned upon and thought of
as a great sin to get divorced. But now there are about 150.000
divorces a year and about 14 out of every thousand marriages result in
divorce. It is still against the Catholic religion to get divorced but
how many people follow the rules exactly as they are? Once again not
many people are incredibly religious and even if they claim to be,
they often manipulate the rules to suit them. But is it right to stay
married even if you are incredibly unhappy? Say the woman was beaten
every day, would it still be a “sin” to get divorced then? I think
morals depend entirely on the circumstances, if there is a good enough
reason for divorce then absolutely, why continue putting yourself
through grief. On the other hand, it is entirely up to the people
involved, they may have personal reasons and it is nobody else’s
business.
Often you see young people out on the streets, with nothing else to do
but terrorise people on the streets, you see old people ‘tut’ and say
“what is this world coming to?” and that today’s kids have no
“morals”. I do not agree, the reason today’s children have grown up,
with there own ideas of right and wrong is because of the worlds
constantly advancing society. In the 1800’s the women were expected to
stay at home and look after children and take care of the house, now
there is equality between the two sexes and women go out to work, and
quite right as well! But then that leaves the children at home with