Over-Zealous
Too often, we're over-zealous in our pursuit of our ideals. As I pointed out in this entry, developing a New Orleans mindset fights against this idealism.
David Brooks of the NYT seems to agree:
David Brooks of the NYT seems to agree:
Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word "sinful" is most commonly associated with chocolate.