Originally posted by Lasheic
The roots of the issue are found in human morality, their expression in culture, and the history of the 20th century. The major turning point in culture would be the 50's/60's with the liberal youth culture rebuking of the "old and evil" establishment which had guided the world into two wars of unprecedented scale and destruction, mired us into a nuclear standoff of apocalyptic potential, and embraced the "dream" of eugenic policies to their nightmarish ends (both at home and abroad).
So stopping the expansion of the nazi-movement was "evil"?
All in all you`re probably spot-on that the counter-culture movement of the 50s and 60s is the origin of the pendulum swining to the other extreme.
Lets hope it rests somewhere in the middle soon.
