Time-tested and Field-tested Moral and Ethics

Marisa, the following quotation for your submission is simply priceless.  Thank you for sharing it!
"I do not like to stereotype but typically with a European household, fathers wore the pants, but mothers ironed them, placed them in the drawers, and told the men which ones to wear and this happened all the time." Yes, those were "the days."  As you observe, what you have learned during those "days" from your strong, healthy family still provides a moral ethical compass for you today. These traditions matured over time.  They have stood the test of time.  We are harming ourselves if we are too quick to dismiss them without realizing how, why they evolved through generation after generation of "field testing."  As American philosopher Russell Kirk observed, we today are too quick to dismiss the legacy of hard human experience because some intellectual paints a utopian option.  You get the idea.  You, I, and Kirk agree.  Before "dishing the past," figure out what it has givwn us, how it has given it to us, and why it has given it to us.  You do this superbly here.  Amen.  Bravo!  Dr. Rux