If It Feels Right ...
By DAVID BROOKS
September 12, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/opinion/if-it-feels-right.htmlDuring the summer of 2008, the eminent Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith led a research team that conducted in-depth interviews with 230 young adults from across America. ...
Smith and company asked about the young people’s moral lives, and the results are depressing.
It's not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you'd expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What's disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues. ...
Alex's comment: This is the case for Humanism. Humanism and
Universal Declaration of Human Rights shall be taught to children and young people as a foundational framework of morality which could help and benefit their whole life, as well as humanity as a whole. Our Humanist Group has an important role to play! Perhaps setting up Humanist cell groups in universities and secondary schools. (Some might suggest revival of ancient fairy tale religions, such as Christianity, to promote morality. The problem of this approach is that, being myth-based, the worldviews of these religions are often unsound, lacking supportive evidence. Once these fragile worldviews are overturned by the young rational minds, the associated moral system will become groundless and subsequently collapse. Humanism, in contrast, being based on science, is a much more robust worldview.)
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