Violence and Hatred

The point matt made about the idea that because older family members have lived through a different era to ourselves their comments (which may today be called prejudiced) are glossed over or disregarded as being meant in a different sense i think is interesting. Today there seems so much tension in society with such things as prejudice and of course the growth of the term 'political correctness'. Has the development and progression of modern society caused (perhaps inadvertantly) more hatred in this area? For those who felt they were being caused an injustice through derogative language, it maybe that society has changed for the better. But what if people weren't taking particular offence to name calling, prefering to brush comments aside as infantile behaviour? Now we have a society where everyone 'has their rights' seemingly to an extreme degree where offence can be taken from anything.

It appears to me that a truly cohesive society without violence and hatred maybe unattainable as people seem to look for injustices being committed toward them. This returns to the idea of everyone looking out for their own self interests in a liberal society. Rather than working toward a cohesive society jointly, a way to perhaps channel aggression, it spills out individually by using prejudices or condemning people as prejudiced when they didn't really mean to be so. Are older people wrong for these 'casual' comments today deemed derogative or is society at fault for making them taboo subjects and a source of hostility?

Don't think i've articulated this to well, thought i'd put it down though as it seems a relevant area in terms of todays lack of cohesion in society.