What Is Something You Consider Sacred That You Believe Is Cheapened By Society?

[hellionthesagereborn]

The Truth. People lie, they manipulate, the media is filled with misinformation and propaganda and they pretend like they are impartial even when you can prove empirically that they have lied and manipulated the information. People do the same, keeping in their echo chambers refusing to acknowledge facts, reason or objective truth because the lies look prettier to them then the reality. I DESPISE this about our society.

I'd also say our views on sex and relationships. Namely that I think its perfectly reasonable to enjoy sex, its perfectly reasonable to want to explore it too. What the issue is, is societies idea that their are no consequences to rampant casual sex even though we know objectively that this isn't true and intuitively that it isn't true (because EVERYTHING has consequences in life, just because you enjoy it doesn't make it any different from everything else in life).

Another issue is Tradition and taboos. Now I don't know if I would say they are sacred in and of themselves, I do believe that times change and so should we, I also think that their is nothing that should go unquestioned. What is cheapened however is this idea that tradition serves no purpose and neither do our social taboos. They have existed for thousands of years, are found across cultures and your first thought is that you don't understand them ergo they must not serve a purpose? That is IDIOCY! OF course they serve a purpose. Now maybe some are outdated, fine, we can change those, but they decide to hack them apart and discard them like an untrained surgeon just ripping out random organs from a person and assuming that everything is going to run fine. Its insane and they are dragging every one else down with them.

Finally, righteousness. I mean REAL righteousness. The kind where you do what is right regardless of what others think. The kind where you try and be the best person you can be, where you empathize with others. Todays society constantly talks about what is "right" and so many people claim to be "moral". How many of them are though? You have people like Leonardo DiCaprio talking about the evils of carbon dioxide and man made global warming. He flew in a private jet producing massive amounts of the stuff, to a ceremony where he accepted an award for his "work" in the field, the work being spouting off a bunch of crap and not actually altering any of his own life style choices. You had Al Gore present a slide show about how the world is ending thanks to man made climate change (never mind that he was entirely wrong in every one of his predictions and the data doesn't back his statements) and that we need to do something about it. Meanwhile he flies in private jets, according to records he uses more electricity then ANYONE else and has not altered his life style what so ever. You have Bernie Sanders screaming about helping the poor and homeless while he has three houses, screams about taxing the rich but then got pissed off when he was questioned about his millions, and screams about a fifteen dollar minimum wage which he won't even pay his own employees and then claims we need free healthcare, again, something he won't even give his own employees (and has fully admitted he doesn't even know how you could do this (because you can't)). You've got people on the left claiming to be tolerant but then actively trying to destroy and violently attack people with different views then them claiming they are Nazi's or racists simply because they won't fall in line. Its despicable that they would hide their selfishness behind a veneer of morality. I don't agree with any of these people but at the very least I could respect their decisions if their actions where morally consistent with their beliefs (and have respected some people who I thought had bat shit crazy ideas but they stuck with them and where consistent and where good people so I respected that).

[clampfan101]

Apparently love with so many jerks all over the place.

[jennifer_bloom]

I think children's emotional and mental health. Like even if your kid never becomes a doctor or engineering professor - she or he is still a child of God and beautiful soul capable of love and affection. So many parents act like a children's only purpose in life is to be beautiful and rich and discard the incredible opportunity to pour selfless love into somebody's life.

[talloak]

Truth and honesty. When people refuse to distinguish between fact and opinion, we lose the ability to function objectively as a society. This prevents us from coming together to do anything important or useful. For example, this kept people from choosing to take global warming seriously and reversing it before it became irreversible. The sacrifice required 20 years ago would have been small. Now the sacrifice needed is 10 times larger and very likely to happen. The war on truth may undo society outright.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Love and relationships. . . and loyalty. I think those things basically have no value to anyone anymore

[AlexanderBrunnrgaard]

Promises, sex, honour, loyalty, honesty, dignified speech. Really, society considers little if not nothing sacred these days. Go figure where the root of our problems lie.

[Sevenpointfive]

hands down my antiques and collectibles. i would have give them up even though i'm a 40-year old virgin

[Massageman]

God, nuclear families, honesty, and the work ethic, all in that order.

[OrderofKaos]

Well letting gays get married destroyed the sanctity of marriage so now marriage is a joke and definitely cheapened it is meaningless now

[Rangers]

Sex, and I am guilty of doing this a couple times in the past, but not anymore.

[lucas262]

Faith
Sex
Southern food ( -_- KFC)
Patriotism
History

[IAMNathanael]

Mis-use of the word "daddy"

I hate it

[Cystic_Xenophon934]

Being respectful to the elderly.

[October808]

Honesty.

[nailu]

fair business practices

[Jamie05rhs]

Truth

[Rob19777]

marriage and sex