Courtesy and Respect

Good idea!  Maybe several options to choose from, or write your own.

A gentleman would know what to do.

I like it, but are you implying psychologists and Fischer are both crazy, or just Fischer?

If the former, then I like it. If the latter, you should have meant the former ;)

Fischer wasn't crazy, he was just reality challenged.

I didn't even know there was a difference between declining, and ignoring.

I'll see if that's true. 

Better check under the correct spelling of reciprocity too, just in case he got it right when he created the account. 

--Cystem

 I issued a challenge tp padman to see if his friend would challenge me, but I haven't yet heard anything. He'll probably even win, since my rating has just been going down from the 1200 default rating. My true rating could well be below 600 since I'm still just trying to learn this crap.

I guess you just proved yourself I liar. Just going by the response I got. 

No, I didn't pay much attention  to that avatar name, but if you had spelled it right, I might have noticed.

Now wait a minute, we had no way of knowing that by "reciprococity" you meant "reciprocity".  I too read it as "unequivocal", you see it's only a few (13 or so) letters different.

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I most definitely agree with the observation of the lamentation being old.  I'll bet for at least the past 5000 years every single generation has had people complaining about how everything is crap now compared to how great things used to be.  Our species loves whining-- it's got to be built right into our basic code.

As for the hordes of polite-niks, they have nothing to do with courtesy.  Most of them are just self-indulgent fops who think their own opinions and mannerisms constitute the pinnacle of perfection, and any who disagree or behave otherwise are rude, or disrespectful, or immature, blah blah blah . . . .

It makes me realize how magnanimous I am to be able to put up with everyone else.  

--Cystem

I think the complaints of courtesy dying go right along with the complaints about degradation of society due to liberals or prostitutes or homosexuals or any of a number of other things. Of course, people don't actually swear more than they used to, nor are there more liberals, prostitutes, or homosexuals. But these aren't swept under the rug to the same degree they used to be, and people don't like that.

I am not bothered by swearing as such, but I am somewhat bothered by people who do it for its own sake, imagining that it is somehow interesting.

A decay in manners, i'd say so, but I am not sure that this translates into moral decay. Then again, it doesn't probably constitute moral progress either.

I realized that when was a teenybopper. That's why I vowed then that I wasn't going to constantly whine about the younger generation when I got older, because I didn't want to sound like what I was always hearing from the older generation. 

I made the same vow. But that was before I realised just how bad they were gonna turn out...

Well, statistics are looking pretty positive for the US at least (as a whole). Crime rates are down. Teen pregnancy is down. Drug use is down. Smoking is down. Charity is up. Overall, it is hard to point to any real evidence of "moral decay."

I think people mistake a shift away from "traditional" to "liberal" morals for "moral decay." In reality, it is just a shift from basing morals on what other people tell you to basing morals on actual logic.