Thursday, January 26, 2012
Fathers
In class the topic of "following in their father's footsteps" when it comes to morals. The discussion continued about what should or is done when father has bad morals. I think that we know when our elders do something wrong or live in a less moral manner. I don't think that we, as humans, want to, or tend to follow in their footsteps. It is heard all the time in television, movies, and conversations with real people; "I don't want to be my father." So I think that when we don't agree with our elders morals, we find new people to admire, people who have the same morals as we do.
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What about "rebellious" kids that come from a good family, but turn into problem children? Do you think that they have just ignored their parent figures and replaced them with other figures, possibly from the media or any other part of life?
ReplyDeleteI don't think they necessarily have worse values, but simply different ones. And then you have to think, what is rebellion? For example my family may say I am the rebellious child because I am an extremely liberal thinker, don't believe in religion, and tend to do things without thinking it through. But that is rebellious in my family because my family is a traditional roman catholic, by the rules family. I simply found older people that had similar values that I do and looked to them as mother and father figures. I respect my parents values, but I do not agree with them, and so I found other older people that do. Rebellious? Maybe. A better choice for me? Yes.
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