The Illusion of Moral Decline

[citygator]

Your racist post is a better indication of the moral decline you are looking for. However, each year more of you old racist assholes die and the world is more moral. Get off my thread with your fuckshit asshole.

 

[Oddball]

Politics is wrapped in the narrative that we are suffering through a moral decline. Turns out, that is NOT true, so quit fretting.

Nature.com published a study a few weeks back that not only disputed the narrative of a moral decline but also offered up the factors that push people to believe it:

Biased Exposure: People are predominantly exposed to the bad stories of others (if it bleeds it leads)

Biased Memory: Bad things fade faster than good things leaving a more favorable view of the past.

Those two biases fool people into thinking everyone else is suffering and that they used to live in an easier time and there it is… things must be worse. Guess what? All evidence to the contrary and it is seen in many contemporary countries.

The illusion of moral decline - Nature

We show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced, and suggest that this illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources, the underuse of social support and social influence.

www.nature.com

Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2. In a series of studies using both archival and original data (n = 12,492,983), we show that people in at least 60 nations around the world believe that morality is declining, that they have believed this for at least 70 years and that they attribute this decline both to the decreasing morality of individuals as they age and to the decreasing morality of successive generations. Next, we show that people’s reports of the morality of their contemporaries have not declined over time, suggesting that the perception of moral decline is an illusion. Finally, we show how a simple mechanism based on two well-established psychological phenomena (biased exposure to information and biased memory for information) can produce an illusion of moral decline, and we report studies that confirm two of its predictions about the circumstances under which the perception of moral decline is attenuated, eliminated or reversed (that is, when respondents are asked about the morality of people they know well or people who lived before the respondent was born). Together, our studies show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced. This illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources3, the underuse of social support4 and social influence5.

 

[citygator]

 

[Arlette]

Single households have been coming down since Obama got into office, but yes higher than past. Regardless, in the past if your husband beat you there was no out. Now you have one. That is an advancement in morality. Mens cause nearly all of the violent crimes and their primary victims are the women they know. Being able to get out is moral.

 

[AMart]

Your racist post is a better indication of the moral decline you are looking for. However, each year more of you old racist assholes die and the world is more moral. Get off my thread with your fuckshit asshole.

You are the racist asshole and wishing death upon me shows me you are evil, no surprise.

 

[Oddball]

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I know what it means....And I'm not going to sit her listening to knuckle draggers, who think it's OK to pump minor children full of hormones and mutilate their genitalia, twaddle on to me about morality.

GFY.

 

[citygator]

You are the racist asshole and wishing death upon me shows me you are evil, no surprise.

Not only are you racist but you have zero reading comprehension. That fact you will die is inevitable, and you are being replaced with people who value diversity versus fear it. They are moral and you should be proud.

 

[citygator]

I know what it means....And I'm not going to sit her listening to knuckle draggers, who think it's OK to pump minor children full of hormones and mutilate their genitalia, twaddle on to me about morality.

GFY.

 

[AMart]

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Oh look a pro divorce post with the woman initiating the divorce.....moral decline. Thanks!

 

[AMart]

Not only are you racist but you have zero reading comprehension. That fact you will die is inevitable, and you are being replaced with people who value diversity versus fear it. They are moral and you should be proud.

Diversity = mass discrimination against white. Thanks for proving my point you racist pos.

 

[Oddball]

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Gaslighting about your gaslighting....lmao.

If you Neanderthals had a shred of self-awareness, you'd be even more dangerous than you already are.

I repeat: GFY.

 

[Arlette]

Oh look a pro divorce post with the woman initiating the divorce.....moral decline. Thanks!

I'm sorry you got dumped

 

[d0gbreath]

Can't the righties just discipline us, until we look, and act just like them?

Asking for a friend.

 

[OKTexas]

Propaganda set to music, sickening.

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[martybegan]

I’m actually a pretty happy person. Just have a low tolerance for bullshit and racism

Except when against whites, and except for sexism against hetero males.

And sexism against women when it involves fake men.

 

[OKTexas]

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Yet I've been with my wife for 47 years, and she never talked about leaving go figure.

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[Leo123]

Single households have been coming down since Obama got into office, but yes higher than past. Regardless, in the past if your husband beat you there was no out. Now you have one. That is an advancement in morality. Mens cause nearly all of the violent crimes and their primary victims are the women they know. Being able to get out is moral.

So you have stopped beating your wife?

 

[OKTexas]

Except when against whites, and except for sexism against hetero males.

And sexism against women when it involves fake men.

Those make it happy.

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[Arlette]

Yet I've been with my wife for 47 years, and she never talked about leaving go figure.

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Naturally YOU are the measure of all measures.

Next

 

[OKTexas]

Naturally YOU are the measure of all measures.

Next

My brother has been with his wife longer than that, my parents were together over 60 years when my mom passed, my in-laws more than 60 years when my father-in-law passed. Our grandparents were together till one passed. So I'm not unique at all.

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