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Originally Posted by cockerpunk

yeah, lotta old men who think compliance to some arbitrary code of conduct means something.

it doesnt. never did. but you'll grasp at those straws all day.

plato said the next generation didnt have the work ethic of his generation too. slate teachers bemoaned the adoptions of pen and paper too.

Absolutely. Things would be a lot better if all men had a "code of conduct" they subscribed to. It is much like punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure. People just seem to communicate better with punctuation and if the noun and verb are in agreement.

I think you refer to a quote of Socrates (as quoted by Plato):

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

That sure does seem to apply today. Funny how the same old problems seem to keep recurring when a society rejects/moves away from discipline and wholesome shared values/traditions.