"Many of these shortcomings will sort themselves out as these youngsters get married, have kids, enter a profession or fit into more clearly defined social roles. Institutions will inculcate certain habits. Broader moral horizons will be forced upon them. But their attitudes at the start of their adult lives do reveal something about American culture. For decades, writers from different perspectives have been warning about the erosion of shared moral frameworks and the rise of an easygoing moral individualism"
Moral individualism-ie: make it up as you go along, relativism, and if it feels good-do it, you DESERVE it. Pretty different from individual responsibility and liberty.
Sigh.
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