Why is human morality stagnating as technology advances faster?

[Elena_Stewart]

The decline of morals has become more evident than ever. Technology allows the world to see people everywhere behaving badly: videos of fights in public go viral, and people fight and bully on social media.

[Bricealan]

I can't help but agree with you. A few months ago I posted here on GAG, that there was a big surfing event here in H. B, which always draws many of the lowest common denominator from everywhere in southern California.

After the event, an acquaintance of mine from Boeing sent me a video of what can only be described as one neanderthal, white thug, sitting with a black man, and for some reason, he began to head butt and beat the black man while someone filmed it.

The black man eventually began to defend himself, and the two ended up in the sand grappling with the black man hopefully killing or seriously injuring the white thug.

I was disgusted to see this kind of trashy behavior on our beaches and yet it was recorded and went viral, an example of what you are illustrating here by you question.

And no, I hate to see this kind of thing, but I cannot deny it goes on daily. Horrible reflection of our society at large.

Cell phone camera technology

[Elena_Stewart]

It’s really sad

[Jersey2]

You seem very hung up on the races of the two people. Do you feel better now? Clearly pointing out the races makes you feel better about yourself somehow.

[Bricealan]

@Jersey2 I have no idea why you would make such an ignorant comment for no reason whatsoever. "Hung up"..."Do I feel better" ? "Pointing out the races, makes me feel better, about what... exactly? I am white, and certainly not a racist. I am in sympathy for the black peaceful man being beaten by a white neanderthal man on the beach in front of thousands. Why would you make such a stupid comment?

[Jersey2]

You are pandering. There was no need to state the races but you did on purpose. The purpose was to tell everyone you who are white are a good guy and don’t support the white guy but rather the black guy… its to make you look good. The woke community even has a phase for people like you. “Proformative wokeness” or “preforming wokeness”. They know what you are doing.

[Jersey2]

Performative*. As in performing.

[Bricealan]

Thank you for the MHO

[Elena_Stewart]

👍🏻😊

[NathanDavis]

I do agree that it has become more evident...

but, I am not sure it has been declining dramatically

I guess, this... would be about perception

[Elena_Stewart]

So, you think it's always been this way and social media has made it obvious?

[NathanDavis]

I think it was even worse in the past... but also yes, it is way more obvious now to a whole lot more people too

[Elena_Stewart]

Gotcha👍🏻

[RebelinSteel]

I think if you could see people from say 1000 AD and look at them as the years progress, there would not be a huge difference, technology yes, but people do people shit. If anything, we tend to know more right from wrong these days, we still do it but we know it’s wrong. The last 50 years did not invent sex, foreplay, promiscuity, same sex, theft, murder, rape, etc, humans have been doing that for ever.

[Daniela1982]

It started sinking to new lows when the internet was created and everyone could watch porn. TV and video games addled the brains of teens everywhere, as they ushered them into adulthood. That is why some guys have no social skills with girls, because they never got off their gaming chairs to socialize.

[BCA6010]

It has less to do with technology, and more to do with conditioning mostly younger people to abandon the values that the culture and society is built on. "Technology" is a tool for this process, but it can be used both ways.

[Elena_Stewart]

Do you think if older generations had technology, would things be different from now?

[abc3643]

Exactly... and I AM in an older generation.

[BCA6010]

If the technology of today existed 30 years ago, but nothing else was different, we would be in mostly the same position now, because again it's a shift in cultural values, not the existence of tools that is degrading moral values.

[abc3643]

No. This is about human nature. The technology is enabling people to unleash their ids with impunity. That said, it is altering the culture because the impunity is becoming a norm.

[Massageman]

Technology is advancing more quickly than the people are capable of adapting their morality. Just when the people reach the end of their ropes, tech makes that rope longer. In TV shows and movies, what was "hot" a few years ago, is tame now. Example: Kirk and Uhura in the 60's, etc.

[normalice]

Traditional definitions of morals tend to come with a lot of extra self-serving baggage. Throwing them into the online gauntlet gets all that baggage scrutinized in such a way that is not gentle with the core morals.

here is another take on it

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fuFlMtZmvY0

[lightbulb27]

we aren't investing in it, there's no $ in it. there's more $ to be made in being pathetic... see hollywood.

church/relgiious invest in this... which is rejected by science.

so we decline...

how much time do people spend studying morality? not enough...

[NamerOfStars]

It's not. Why do you assume that people didn't have badly when it was hidden? Do you think bullying only sprang into existence with the rise of social media? That "Florida Man" exists as a touchstone of meme culture because Floridians are ACTUALLY crazier than everyone else?

Being more aware of something doesn't make it more common.

I mean, does the drastic reduction in slavery and bigotry mean an increase in human morality?

[abc3643]

4 billion years of evolution are a lot stronger than 400 years of enlightenment.

[exitseven]

social media has pandered to the lowest common denominator. They have not hit rock bottom yet.

[Rangers]

As technology improves, humans get worse, it's quite simple

It's been happening for the past 150 years

[disgustingweebtrash]

What morality in your opinion is decaying? If anything people are valued based on their morality much more. People compete if anything to show how much they suck disenfranchised groups off

[Snakeyes7]

I wouldn't say stagnating, it is either crashing and burning for some and it is improving for others.

[Anonymous]

I know right? what should be done to these filthy degenerates?

[Astarlessnightsky]

Its not. Its just now you simply see it more.

[jshm2]

Nope, the opposite.

[Elena_Stewart]

How?

[californianjoe]

The plague of our age is immorality.

[DreamLife7]

Ask men they're responsible for all this mess

[Elena_Stewart]

I believe men and women do that

[DreamLife7]

Men are the initial cause while women have grown fed up and retaliated. Don't be a pick me

[jahaims]

What is and isn't moral is subjective