Morals & Values among Indians is Degenerating

Yes, I do agree with this statement. Today's generation is moving with the speed and they have forgotten the moral values and basic ethics.

Somehow I feel that parents are also equally to be blamed. With this corporate life where work is 24/7 and the parents do not have time for their children. Because of the ego problem within parents there are fights and verbal abuses by the parents in front of the kids. These kids pick it from them and same shows in their behavior.

So I feel the moral values and ethics start from base at home. Hence it is important to keep the environment at home clean and follow some ethic and moral values which when the kids see will follow.

And thus save our future generation.

Friends, Read views of couple of participants here. Though online, this is a good effort to at least discuss in group about VALUES AND ETHICS.

My only question to anyone and everyone here - Values and ethics are mostly taught and learned during childhood at home by parents and elders; also by teachers in schools and professors in college; as youth dawns, these values start getting diluted and are almost thrown out.

And then these values, ethics almost completely disappear during adulthood. That's what we call BIG, BAD PRACTICAL WORLD. WHY? How can our fundamental values and ethics be retained during our youth and adult life which is the most productive period of our individual and collective lives?

I think everyone might have faced an issue where the other person took your advantage and you were just shattered because you didn't expect it to come from them. It may be by siblings or by friends. And after that people will just tell you you shouldn't be this good to others. You don't have the sense of understanding who is a nice person and who is not but no one will tell the person who took advantage in the first place that you were the wrong one. I guess that's where India is degenerating its moral values. Yeah, good books religious books will teach you the morals but only through practice and daily reinforcement one can totally understand the true meaning of moral values.

I believe that, all the above discussions are right. Today, our India is degrading because of the foreign countries.

They tend to make India in the lowest position. Recently, in 2017 many people were killed while playing the "Pokemon" game. Have the Indians introduced the game?No. The foreigners have done it. Now, the "Blue Whale" also came in the international market. Recently, one life is lost also. How much time will it take to reach India?

I don't know, how many lives it is still desiring to engulf. So, we must keep ourselves away from the ill-effecting outside products. I am not saying that all products are harmful. But, there are some and we must be aware of them.

Today is the world of technology. If we blame teenagers for the deterioration of values in them then we also have to blame ourselves for the same. Nowadays when teens talk to us in a rude manner, we feel astonished. But what are we teaching them while raising them is the real case? We teach them from the very beginning that this is your toy, pencil, book etc and do not share with other kids. We teach them not to share their notes with other classmates. Teach them how to survive in cut-throat competition. Now when they have grown up with this thing in their minds, we are blaming them. It a not the teens but we are the one to b blamed for upbringing such generation.

Traditional source of inculcating moral values in children are too busy or falling too short of their role.

Parents-Too busy in their own job.

Traditional joint families are becoming non-existent.

Education -All about learning science, math & language skills. Moral education is out of curriculum.

Society-Defines your success based on your position & number of zeros in your salary. End becomes important than the means.

Leaders -Political leaders -Most hated species in India.

Media- Believe that cricket, TV stars etc are topics of national importance.

Youth can not be blamed. If its a moral degradation, it is collective failure.

Morals and values among Indians today is definitely changing. Today the youth values the importance of speaking up rather than being silent onlookers to whatever goes on in the society. People are more aware of what's happening around them and are ready to act against them. It is also true that people today are more materialistic today but that is what comes out of the fierce competition and the necessity to make one's presence felt in today's world. Associating value to money is not altogether bad because money can also be used towards helping people and the development of the society. So, values are changing but not degrading.

Yes, Moral and values are degrading.

The condition has become very worse in todays life. There is no trust between individuals. Competition and selfishness has increased even between siblings, friends and relatives. There is no sharing of happiness and sorrows. People feel happy to know about others sufferings.

All want to climb up the ladder pushing everyone down. Life was a lot better, people had good understanding when they had less money as in the olden days when other persons suffering was considered as your own suffering and people used to rejoice in others happiness. In the present world, it is exactly the opposite.

Hi,

I feel the same as most of us in the group feel that moral values are degrading these days the reason behind it which I feels is the parents and the teachers are not playing their role properly. Morale value get develop at the age of student, everyone thought us that we should not the feeling of other, pay respect to our elder and may things but there action doesn't shows the same.

When the people around a child is not morally correct then the child will also do the same. So fifthly we have to be the change what we want to change in the world so that the next generation will learn good things form us and follows it.

Morals & Values have never degraded from our society but we are lacking in expressing them. The most common reason is lack of humanity, yes we have to accept that there are some people in between us who should not called to be human. Now the time has come to re-generate our morals and values among them & if not possible then they should not be a part of our society. We are Indians &even today also we live in a era where we treat our Guest as God so the only thing we need to do is to keep our culture and ethics alive. Our thoughts and emotions should be more modern and true than our cloths and livelihood.