I am an 85-year-old person, without title or portfolio, but am a witness. During my life I have witnessed our country morph from a very moralistic society, where the lines between right and wrong were clearly defined, to that of an amoral society. The lines currently between right and wrong have softened and, in some cases, have totally been obliterated. We are asked to accept a new moral ethic, “The New Normal,” which is a euphemism for “anything and everything goes!”
I have learned that we all, as people, are the sum total of our experiences, and everything in life has a cost. My question to all of us is: Are we, as Americans, willing to pay the price for this “New Normal” ethic? Acceptance will definitely put us on the slippery slope toward Hedonism. I don’t know, I am just asking.
