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(Transformers: More than Meets the Eye)

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Are your morals similar to those of your parents? Similar but slightly different? The complete opposite?

Of my four parental units, most similar to my step-dad. I was raised with my mom and step-dad, but visited my dad and step-mom weekly, too. Anyway my dad and step-mom are liberal, as I am, and mostly pretty level-headed but they're also very religious, and my dad tends to be a bit more "Christianity is the only right way". My step-mom is a little less extreme, but still religious where I'm atheist. My mom and step-dad are non-religious. But my mom tends to be a little more traditionalist in her views and is still struggling with the fact that I'm gay. She's trying to evolve, I know, but she'll still say things like "both a man and a woman bring something important to childrearing" or that sort of thing.

"Christianity is the only right way". That's my dad to a T and it drives me up the wall. He was raised that way; it's been instilled in him so long that he just seems incapable of change. On occasion I get really upset about it, especially because it carries over into gay rights.

Yeah, pretty similar. My parents are pretty straight-up folks. The only thing is my mom is kind of...I don't even know what to call her. She's generally speaking a really, really nice person. But, for instance, talk about giving food to the food bank, and she's all, "But they feed ILLEGALS!" The thing I do like about her is she's all right with talking things through and can (sometimes, but not always) see the other side.

My morals are way more similar to my parents' than my brother's are. The three of us are all pretty much "do what you want as long as it isn't hurting anyone" without really basing our morals on what someone else tells us is right, at least not overtly.

Bits and pieces. I drifted away from some of theirs around uni years but they've drifted my way and we kind of align again. i.e. farm animal welfare, disability awareness, lgbti rights. They still have some catching up in my books but they've also got more years of views to move away from, being older and all. (still a little transphobic but I'm optimistic)

Most recently our ethics around aggressive dog attacks - although never discussed previously was surprised that we more or less align on our views there.

They're still religious although thankfully no longer fundie-religious. A more casual-christian-still-believe-but-relaxed-about-others-not-believing. Which is probably a good attitude to take when half your children turn out atheist.

More or less the same, but... well, for instance, I don't think they really believe in gay marriage. I don't think they don't believe in it, but I don't think they really see why everyone's talking about it. They're fine with me being for it, but I'm not sure they realize WHY I'm so for it.

Having said that, my mom did urge me to protest Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and always made it clear being gay isn't a choice.

Completely opposite, even though their moral beliefs are quite different from the other's. They believe certain things are right or wrong, and I'm a moral relativist.

Very similar. My parents were feminist, sex-positive, atheist hippies who didn't trust the establishment.

Being the skeptic I am, I gave various religion/spirituality things a try when I was a teenager and found them to be mostly nonsense as far as I was concerned. If they work well for others, so be it, but it didn't do anything for me.

And as for the rest of it, I couldn't really see any reason not to be a feminist or sex-positive. Being a hippie just works out because I care about animals and the environment and try to do my best in both those regards. I don't really see any reason to not follow my parents' beliefs because they started out pretty damn good as it was.

I would say mine are broadly in tune with the general thrust, but we differ significantly in implementation. My mom and dad, and grandparents, are all of the general Bill and Ted philosophy, just they don't really do much introspection into not being assholes. Which sometimes leads them to accepting some Assholeish/Republican policy statements until someone explains the implications and outcomes of those policies in relatively simple language, then they tend to be appalled and wonder why the assholes in the policy unit wrote it in such weasel language so as to confuse people. Then they get angry, but don't really do anything political with their anger, which I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg

Similar to both of them but in different ways. Not exactly like either of them.

Let's just say that in terms of seeing other people as complicated beings, I'm a lot more open-minded then my mother. I think I share more with my dad on this, seeing that his past job involves meeting people of all stripes and nationalities.

Hrm. That's an interesting question. Not very similar to my dad at all, since he can be kind of a cynical prejudiced jerk. Basically similar to my mom - I think there's definitely some good traits I've picked up from her, and, you know, liberal and tolerant and all that. If there's one family member who's influenced me in terms of that kind of thing it's actually my uncle (my mother's younger brother, to be specific) - he's just someone who's very kind and accepting and who's just really good at listening to people, putting himself in their shoes, being generous about their faults and just calm and kind all of the time, and those are things I guess I've tried to emulate.

Yeah quite similar. Which means I have huge trust issues because as helpful as my parents can be towards other people, they also believe most people are terrible and will backstab you.

My father believes that Jews are literally descended from Satan (also that they are all compulsive lairs, and can't make green things grow), and that white people are the true Israelites, and shouldn't have kids outside their race, also that gay people are destined for hell.

I'm a queer trans woman... we have our differences.

My Mom, and I disagree about politics (she tends to fear welfare abusers too much)... but we agree on more than I do with my Father.

My morals are basically what my mother professes to have but is too white and old and conservative and Christian to ever live up to.

Edited 2015-04-18 03:12 (UTC)

Yes in that we are/were all believers in minding one's own business, living and letting live, following the Golden Rule, respecting even those you didn't necessarily agree with or approve of, and generally trying not to be an asshole if you can help it.

No in a lot of the finer specifics and on a few key sticking points. They were well-off mainstream Catholic Republicans (these days I'm pretty sure they'd be written off by their own party as 'RINOs.') I'm a more or less agnostic struggling moderate Democrat.

I think I'd say we're fairly similar morally, in terms of how we think people should treat each other in a broad sense, but different politically and ideologically.

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