Morality Has Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket

There is absolutely nothing like it. You innocently head to town to shop. You make it alive to the store, having one again managed to dodge the oncoming wild drivers. You walk into the store, feeling lucky to be in one piece and feeling safe again inside the store. No wild idiot drivers can touch you in the store.

You grab a shopping cart and start getting what you need, not paying attention to much around you, and oblivious to what's coming up the isle towards you. You look up and your mouth just drops open. Surely your shocked expression is obvious to the female coming towards you. She's dressed in clothes so tight that there is no way she could get a toothpick in between her and what tiny amount of fabric is clinging to her body. A Bra covers more than what she is wearing for a top. Worse yet? She passes you, you turn around and look (why?) and her thong is riding up her back and her tiny excuse of a short skirt shows her butt cheeks hanging out. You want to puke, so you head straight for the bathroom.

You make it safely to the bathroom, ready to hurl at what you just witnessed. You go into the bathroom and head for the one empty stall, and try to get the image of the female out of your head. When you think you are fine and decide that you don't need to puke after all, you walk out of the stall. As luck would have it, so does another woman at the same time. Both of you go to wash your hands. That's when you notice there is something strange about this woman. You happen to look down at her legs (why?) and see they are very hairy, like a man's legs. You look directly as the face and see beard stubble. You want to puke again. You realize you are standing in the women's bathroom next to a man dressed as a woman. You head back to the stall, but someone has it, so you go to the one next one, only to discover the seat raised.

By this time, the other person has left and you are starting to feel really sick. You get your shopping cart and decide to make a mad dash to get the rest of what you need and go home. As you walk the isles, you pass a couple of teens talking and hear them say all sorts of profanity that would make the sailors blush. Worse? There's an elderly lady shopping near them within hearing range, a mom with a little girl nearby, and it doesn't occur to them not to talk that way.

You pay for your goods and leave the store, heading for your vehicle to unload the bags. A car drives by slowly with the sound turned up as loud as it could possibly go, shouting out profanity out of this world and with lyrics talking of killing and murdering. When you look at the driver and shake your head, he returns the look with a lovely hand gesture.

So where has morality gone? There was a time that a woman would not use profanity, and if a man did it was only in the company of other men and never around a lady. There was a time that people actually covered their bodies and didn't parade around half naked. There was a time that children obeyed their parents and didn't dare talk back. There was a time that men dressed like men and women dressed like women. There was a time that right was right and wrong was wrong. There was a time that people accepted responsibility for their own actions rather than blame another person for their wrongdoings. What happened to that time?

Today, if you drive down the road and look at someone, they are liable to shoot you a dirty gesture, shoot you literally, run you off the road, run over you, etc. Today, if you walk upon kids doing something they shouldn't be doing, they are liable to tell you just where you can get and what you can do while there. Today, if you are found not to accept or condone immoral behavior, you are seen as the one who is in the wrong. If you don't allow your kids to dress in a manner than shows their off, you are seen as the one who has the problem. If you leave your spouse when you catch them cheating on you, you are seen as the one who isn't open minded enough. If you oppose music with filthy lyrics or if you don't like listening to nasty sexual talk, you are seen as a prude.

Society as a whole has went to hell in a hand basket. So few have any real morals left. It's nothing for a person to talk filth in front of an elderly person. It's nothing to parade around half dressed. It's nothing to go out in public with underwear showing, or none at all. It's nothing for a young child to curse.. It's nothing for children to talk back to their parents. It's nothing for women to only want men for their money and what they can spend on them. It's nothing for a man to want a woman for her body and not caring about what's underneath the skin. It's nothing for a person to horribly hurt or kill another person and feel no remorse for it. It's nothing for a person to be condemned for daring to have morals and refusing to say it's NOT right or okay to do things which go against nature itself.

A man or woman that is a virgin and wishes to remain so until married is considered strange or even gay. A person that dresses modest is seen as a prude. A child that doesn't talk back to parents, has manners and respect, is seen as sheltered. A mom that chooses to stay at home and raise the kids she had over letting a babysitter raise them and let her husband work is seen as lazy. A man that works and supports his family while the mom stays home to raise the kids is seen as dominating or as a male chauvinist.

The cold hard truth is that this world has become a place of anything goes. The nastier and more immoral, the better people like it. The more down in the mud a person can get, the more they enjoy it. The more shock value they can cause, the more they crave the attention. The people left that still have morals and values are now seen as the minority rather than the majority.