[aaron695]

> I can relate: if it became popular with the youth of tomorrow to broil rats and serve them at market price, I'd probably never get on board.

Then you will become like most old people.

New things like interracial marriage, gay marriage, trying to not use a lot of resources(baby boomers not pre war), computers etc frighten old people.

And you also will get older and die, like they will before you.

But while you are dying off the youth will embrace the new and the better.

I just feel sad you have pin holed yourself already to not even want to try.

And although I don't like boiled meats, BBQ rat tastes fine.

[Edit] broil != boil I see from Google :)

[coldtea]

>But while you are dying off the youth will embrace the new and the better.

Yeah, ain't that a shame? Those old belle-epoque people getting older, while the younger generations embraced Word War I and then the Nazi party.

Or those people that got older after the sixties, were the younger generations embraced Raeganism...

Sarcasm aside, new is not necessarily better. It's not even a strong correlation. There is new stuff that can be better than old, and old stuff that can be better than new in equal measure.

Only technology monotonically progresses to better and more advanced things. Morals and customs (and aesthetics) can and do change either way.

[Dylan16807]

>new is not necessarily better

Sure, sure, but getting rid of prejudices that are objectively nonsense is better. Things like which foods are delicacies and which are icky that are not at all based on nutrition, sanitation, etc.