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To: Riskmgmt who wrote (3454)	1/16/2006 11:47:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217891

Ray, I think the underlying problem and I plead guilty too, as I was leading the charge to the free world of the future is that the Victorian virtues were thrown out with the bath water, as in throwing out the baby with the bath water. The stifling affectations of the time, morality of a busy-body self-righteous nature, pretentiousness, kleptocratic social hierarchy and authoritarianism were all rejected, and rightly so, but respectfulness was ditched as being compliant with the rejected aspects. Out went essential virtues too. It became fashionable to not be a wowser, hence swearing constantly to affect being a regular non-Victorian person. Even theft wasn't all that bad as it showed some derring-do, which is fashionable - one can't be a milksop. Addling ones brain with various neurotoxins showed derring-do too although they are nearly all just toxins made by plants for self-defence against beasties which try to eat them as food and especially if they were illegal. Bring back virtue. It became fashionable to reject traditional values. If it was old-fashioned, it was no good. Which is quite odd because more usually, the time-honoured, tried and true, tradition and venerable virtues have been distilled from eons of what works and what doesn't. Step outside those boundaries at one's peril. Unfortunately, those boundaries became cages imposed by others for the purpose of having things their way and maintaining their positions of power rather than to enhance the lives of the adoptees who willingly learned how to have an excellent and happy life. We will relearn virtues because they aren't optional. They are essential ingredients to civilized life. On the other hand, it was probably always like this = old geezers whining about loss of virtue and young hoodlums tearing up the town and chasing girls flat out, ending up in the stocks, or dead. Mqurice