Comment on Excuse the fuck me?
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoPlenty of people before 2025 divorced for any number of reasons.
Plenty of people straight up murdered their spouse because divorce wasn’t an option.
Saying “people in the current culture we live in do not place any value on their word or honor” means you have no idea how people in the past lived.
People are today as they have always been, just with different gadgets and environment.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say anything about a divorce or murder. Maybe I was bad at getting my point across.
The point I’m attempting to make is that putting value on your word, and by association giving extra value to a vow over another type of promise, is a lesser respected or necessary part of being a human in the late stage capitalist society that we live in.
This can be evidenced by people saying that a vow can easily be broken if the circumstances change.
That is not what a vow means.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My point is that it hasn’t changed. People have always been people.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s correct. People have always been people. In my short time on this dirty ball in space I have noticed that people I know and people I work with and people I interact with on the street all put less and less value on intangible things like honor, respect, and your personal word being worth something as time goes on.
I’m in no way saying people were better in the past. I’m saying that the value assigned to these intangibles is currently worth less than it was in recent cultural memory.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I think what you’re describing is the breakdown of the social contract