Traditional values
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| “ | He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where "traditional values" meant "hang someone." | ” |
| —Terry Pratchett, The Truth | ||
A return to traditional values is an oft-spoken desire of conservatives. It's part of fundamentalist psychology.
Traditional values include, but are not limited to, the many ideals listed here.
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[edit] Commonly spoken of
- Prayer in schools
- Creationism as science in schools
- Abstinence only education in schools
- Outlawing abortion
- Outlawing homosexual acts
- Encouraging women to be skivvies
[edit] Not so commonly spoken of
Probably because those who trumpet "traditional values" the loudest do not actually adhere to them.
- Honor
- Integrity
- Charity
- Modesty
- Work ethic
- Family values (the real kind, not their redefined sort)
[edit] Skeletons in the closet
- Slavery
- Anti-Semitism
- Feudalism
- Women as chattel property
- Infanticide (it must be noted that this does not include any time before "pre-uterine expulsion")
- Poor sanitation
- Entrenched racism
- Life expectancy not exceeding
703050 years - Marriageable age of
9712 - Lynch mob for heretics and minority groups
- Capital punishment for heretics [1]
- Capital punishment for sexual deviancy [2]
- Capital punishment for, well, everything. "It's hanging for a sheep, or murder in the first degree."
- 80 hour work week[3]
- No paid holidays
- Famine
- Interdiction of divorce
[edit] Morris Dancing
On the other hand, Morris Dancing is also a traditional value, and nothing's better than dressing up silly, getting drunk, and dancing in public, to say nothing of the redeeming social value of learning to deal with the symbolism of grown men shaking their jingly bells and swatting their big, thick, knotty sticks together in a mature, responsible fashion.
[edit] Graphic arts
Graphic artists formerly recognised three traditional values: dark, light, and mid-tone. Societies where graven images are frowned upon generally make do with line and colour, rather than skate too close to realistic rendering with all those shades of grey. Noted home scholar Ansel Adams, being dissatisfied with just three zones of value, used some larger prime number, perhaps nine.
[edit] See also
- Chivalry
- Homophobia
- Family values
- Daily Mail
- Actions which demand the death penalty in the Old Testament
- Slavery in the Bible
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Where 'heretic' is defined in the broader sense as "people who don't play nice with their local church leader", or in the narrower sense, "Anyone the local church leader doesn't like."
- ↑ Where 'sexual deviancy' is defined as "Anything remotely sexual that isn't a married man and his
chattelwoman trying to make a baby in the missionary position." - ↑ This is the only place where we find the metric system to be better.