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Are people in our country becoming more self-centered and less respectful of the rights of others than past generations?

tncdel 2012/06/30 00:40:19
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  • Vision of Verve 2012/07/01 00:00:02
  • frank 2012/06/30 17:07:49
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    frank
    It is being bread into them that the government will take care of you and you are not responsible for your own actions.
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  • beachbum 2012/06/30 15:11:50
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    beachbum
    For many, absolutely. Far to many see opposing view points as wrong, not just different, but wrong, and therefore the opposing person is an idiot.
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  • BongRipper 2012/06/30 14:42:07
    NO [explain why you think not].
    BongRipper
    +1
    Old people have said this since the first humans became the first old humans
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  • Don Leuty 2012/06/30 06:00:10
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Don Leuty
    +2
    It's called the "ME" generation.
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  • redhorse29 2012/06/30 05:24:46
    NO [explain why you think not].
    redhorse29
    We are reacting to the leadership of our social environment. The schools, church and government leaders are all failing to live up to good moral standards.
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  • Aquaduck 2012/06/30 04:24:44
    NO [explain why you think not].
    Aquaduck
    Than past generations? L-M-F-A-O. Why do people get the idea that in past generations people just held hands skipping throught the meadows singing in harmony and lived in a world of peace, cakes, and rainbows? The world has always been a messed up place, not just in the 21st century so stop with this "generaton" stuff.
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  • crotchrot 2012/06/30 03:50:30
  • ☆SPIDERPIECES☆ 2012/06/30 03:41:53
    NO [explain why you think not].
    ☆SPIDERPIECES☆
    +7
    People themselves can be courteous, but Americans as a whole have always been self-centered.



    people courteous americans self-centered
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  • *Mahoga... ☆SPIDER... 2012/06/30 03:44:03
    *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
    +4
    Yup.
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  • Vision ... ☆SPIDER... 2012/06/30 23:59:27
  • ☆SPIDER... Vision ... 2012/07/01 01:04:31
    ☆SPIDERPIECES☆
    +1
    That's what I said. As individuals, "People themselves can be courteous."
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  • *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T 2012/06/30 03:38:17
    NO [explain why you think not].
    *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
    +5
    Let's see, past generations.

    Let Japanese Americans get put in camps, lost their businesses, homes etc...

    Let Woodrow Wilson deny women the right to vote.

    Let the IRS take control of taxes.

    Allowed the Feds to be created and control our currency.

    Denied tax payers of dark pigmentation the right to vote, the right to eat at certain restaurants, schools, etc..

    Allowed the Jim Crow Laws to rule the South.

    Allowed Hoover to illegally wire tape civilians; well this generation allowed that as well.

    Allowed FDR to create The New Deal.

    LOL; the list goes on.
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  • ☆SPIDER... *Mahoga... 2012/06/30 03:46:37
    ☆SPIDERPIECES☆
    +5
    A lot of Conservatives can be self centered.
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  • *Mahoga... ☆SPIDER... 2012/06/30 03:54:24
    *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
    +4
    Yeah some of them fit that description to a tee.
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  • Flamingolady 2012/06/30 03:09:17
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Flamingolady
    paradox of our age by dalai lama
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  • Mark In Irvine 2012/06/30 02:49:33
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Mark In Irvine
    +1
    totally ... the go-go years (during Reagan's administration) turned everybody into a self-centered, BMW-coveting, latte-drinking, egotist ...
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  • *Mahoga... Mark In... 2012/06/30 03:39:03
    *Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
    +1
    http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
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  • JanHopkins 2012/06/30 02:39:50
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    JanHopkins
    +1
    They no longer respect the right of privacy. People seem to think that they have an innate right to tell you how you should live, talk, breathe, walk, and take out your trash.
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  • Gracie - Proud Conservative 2012/06/30 02:30:43
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Gracie - Proud Conservative
    +1
    I think it's from the break down in the family and the community. We're all self-centered strangers without connections.
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  • Dagon 2012/06/30 01:46:39
  • Dan 2012/06/30 01:45:34
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Dan
    +1
    I see it everywhere. People seem to think that their rights trump common courtesy and the rights of others.
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  • Ken 2012/06/30 01:43:19
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Ken
    +1
    Not becoming, they are.
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  • Kaimeso 2012/06/30 01:25:23
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Kaimeso
    +1
    Just part of the political plan to divert the public from what is going on in DC. Polarize the population, keep each group blaming the others without ever thinking who is the real enemy.

    If you blame liberals/progressives/democrats for all the problems, you have fallen into their trap.
    If you blame conservatives/republicans for all the problems, you have fallen into their trap.

    Wake up people, the enemy is in Washington,.. They are called politicians and the party they belong to doesn't matter,...
    politician laughing republican politician laughing
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  • TheBadOne 2012/06/30 01:16:50 (edited)
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    TheBadOne
    Moderation used to be a good thing. Now moderates are being voted out of office against opponents within their same party who've managed to paint them as weak for not taking a hardline stance on a position. As a result, extremism has infiltrated both sides of the aisle. One party wants to spend until we're broke, the other wants to cut taxes on the wealthiest of people and businesses until we're broke. No one wants to compromise and everyone feels validated because they create the environment which allows them to receive only validation and no criticism. The right watches Fox while the left watches MSNBC. The right listens to Rush while the left listens to Moore. The right foolishly believes the Republicans will stand for freedom while the left foolishly believe Democrats stand for equality. Both parties support the wars, both parties support the drug war, both parties want a mandate (Obamacare exists today, Romneycare will exist tomorrow unless 2004 repeats itself), both parties support NAFTA and GATT because we supposedly don't need entry level jobs, and both parties use the same political tactics to act like the other is insipid but at the end of the night, they go out for martinis and hookers and repeat the whole process all over again.

    Add that to the fact that we live ...
    Moderation used to be a good thing. Now moderates are being voted out of office against opponents within their same party who've managed to paint them as weak for not taking a hardline stance on a position. As a result, extremism has infiltrated both sides of the aisle. One party wants to spend until we're broke, the other wants to cut taxes on the wealthiest of people and businesses until we're broke. No one wants to compromise and everyone feels validated because they create the environment which allows them to receive only validation and no criticism. The right watches Fox while the left watches MSNBC. The right listens to Rush while the left listens to Moore. The right foolishly believes the Republicans will stand for freedom while the left foolishly believe Democrats stand for equality. Both parties support the wars, both parties support the drug war, both parties want a mandate (Obamacare exists today, Romneycare will exist tomorrow unless 2004 repeats itself), both parties support NAFTA and GATT because we supposedly don't need entry level jobs, and both parties use the same political tactics to act like the other is insipid but at the end of the night, they go out for martinis and hookers and repeat the whole process all over again.

    Add that to the fact that we live in the Internet age of NOW and it explains why people care less about anyone other than themselves Just give to a charity that spends most of it's money on "business operations" and don't be bothered to actually help anyone else.
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  • Mechelle 2012/06/30 00:53:19
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Mechelle
    +1
    Because we are getting to the point that we fight for what we want and need. With our rights being taken away, with all the Illegals getting their way at the cost of AMERICAN CITIZENS, with parental rights being hendered, I could go on and on. But this is the reason its a ME AND MINE NATION
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  • Balladeer-PWCM-POTL 2012/06/30 00:47:56 (edited)
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Balladeer-PWCM-POTL
    +6
    being accused of being a racist without cause since 2008 by pieces of dung like Janine garafolo



    accused racist 2008 pieces dung janine garafolo
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  • America... Ballade... 2012/06/30 05:15:12
    American☆Atheist
    Repubes SAY they like cain because he is black to not look racist. why do you think he was the first out of the race?
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  • Ballade... America... 2012/06/30 05:59:21
    Balladeer-PWCM-POTL
    because of you socialists' smear campaign..were you asleep or your head up obie's rectum....you outed an alleged affair....funny when it was clinton you didn't care who he plooked
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  • America... Ballade... 2012/06/30 10:42:10
    American☆Atheist
    In English please.
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  • Ballade... America... 2012/06/30 16:55:24
    Balladeer-PWCM-POTL
    I can explain it TO you...but i can't understand it FOR you
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  • America... Ballade... 2012/07/01 05:43:14
    American☆Atheist
    I want it in English.
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  • CHUCK 2012/06/30 00:43:57
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    CHUCK
    +3
    KIDS WALK AROUND TEX-TING ,WHILE PEOPLE ARE TALKING TO THEM..
    THEY TALK BACK TO THEIR PARENTS..

    CAT KNITTING
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  • Gordon 2012/06/30 00:43:00
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Gordon
    +2
    Just take a look around us at so many rude people.
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  • Kat 2012/06/30 00:42:58
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    Kat
    +3
    Government promotes it, easier to control stupid people with no foundation.
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  • lonewolf 2012/06/30 00:41:16
    YES [tell us why you think so].
    lonewolf
    +3
    better believe it. it a me generation now and the hell with the rest
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