But this doesn't mean we are fated to continue along in this fashion. Today, more than ever, with the prevalence of modern technology and advancement of human knowledge, people are ready for alternatives to the authoritarian nation-state and workplace. The willingness to cheat increased the longer children were in school. Athletes generally score lower than nonathletes with regard to moral reasoning and ethical awareness. As students progress through college, nonathletes' moral reasoning scores improved, while athletes' scores actually declined .
Ethical stances vary with different generations.
A survey conducted by Harvard researchers found that men and women have different ethical paradigms as well. Equality mattered most to men in the survery, whereas nonviolence mattered to the women in the survey. Women tended to find moral value in networks and lateral relationships, whereas the men surveyed valued hierarchical relationships. Again, anarchism proves to be the only political theory whereby people can hope to find the equality and nonviolence they say they value. Return to the Anarchy for Anybody Homepage.