moral panic meaning and definitionmoral panic mean? Here you find 1 meanings of moral panic.
an overwrought public anxiety that evil things are afoot. The term seems to have been coined by Jock Young in 1971.* The most obvious example of an ancient moral panic is the blood libel. Other famous examples of moral panics include the 1955 Boise scandal, in which three cases of lewd conduct between men and teenaged boys, plus a noxious editorial, triggered a general war against homosexual men. In the early 1930's, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) launched a public relations effort to have federal laws passed banning the use of marijuana; it was driven by a jurisdictional struggle between Harry Anslinger (FBN) and J. Edgar Hoover (FBI). The campaign was a success; it not only achieved the desired legislation, but created a wave of mass hysteria about the "threat" of marijuana. _____________________________ * Goode & Ben-Yehuda, *Moral Panics* (1994), p.12.
When a person is OUTRAGED on social media so that their friends will think they're a good person. Moral peacocks are famous for spreading fake memes because they don't actually read the news or care IRL.
an irrational fear of Natural Law
Doing interesting stuff that feels like you're making the world better in preference to doing the easy, boring, daily stuff that actually makes a difference.
Moral relativism is the philosophy that there are no objective moral standards at any place or any time
A moral relativist is one with a snarky attitude and bloated sense of self-importance. They can be found loitering about college campus' for years on end in multiple graduate school programs. If you are unfortunate to have one in your freshman philosophy class they will ask "questions" that are not so carefully disguised claims of superiority over the professor and all other students. Often known to despise organized religion and wear anti-religious bigotry on his/her sleeve, while displaying outrage at all other forms of bigotry. They become loud and angry if you point out that such outrage ironically hinges on moral absolutism.
Standards of behavior and association based upon one's moral values.
When a person asks for moral support, they mean on a picture or status they have uploaded on social media. This is your cue to go like it (if you like them that is)
Noun1. An ethnocentric person who sees their person morals and/or a group's morals that he/she identifies with as superior to any other groups morals. So Superior that they support ethnocentric policies promote their morals at the expense of everyone else's moral views. Moral Supremacist reject cultural pluralism and are eager to engage in cultural warfare in the public political arena to quash any form of dissent against their social agenda.
1.All purpose sin remover2.Prayer
n. One's personal definition of and resolve to practice the proper behavior to exhibit, both in public and private. This may be determined by one's religion, philosophy, carnal desires, or lack thereof.