Comment on Excuse the fuck me?
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoI 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 2 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
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Possibly that is part of it. But I am not sitting here saying humanity is getting worse over time in general. Just that the value placed on some of the unwritten parts of the contract have lessened in value somewhat.