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The Death of Conscience

Brian H Wrote: Aug 04, 2009 8:55 PM
The entire article is based on "common knowledge", which turns out to be broadly and thoroughly false. Pregnancy and drug use rates have been dropping for some time, and all statistical evidence indicates improvement in morality in young people, not worsening.

But that doesn't sell books.

Booo! Lousy pandering and writing, pandering to stupidity and falsehoods.

Our teenagers are more sexually active than any generation of youth before them. They also are consuming more pornography and compromising basic moral standards more often. It seems that many of them have lost not only their innocence, but their conscience, too.

The plethora of negative and immoral behaviors glorified by a media world that's gone stark raving mad -- combined with graphic, non-judgmental sex education and a highly sexualized culture in general -- causes many of them to lose understanding of what is wrong and what is right.

When a young child's sensibilities are constantly violated, and he...

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