those universal values are not what we’re teaching people today. I was recently in Cleveland doing a television show. The audience was composed of students from six different Cleveland high schools. And the students were of different races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and religions. I asked them a question: “If you really wanted a certain item, would you shoplift if you were sure you could get away with it?”
Nearly all those kids said yes. And even the handful who would not shoplift were not prepared to say the others were wrong. Why? Because, they said, everything is a matter of opinion.
The great moral tragedy of our time is that feelings have replaced values. And they shouldn’t. Feelings are beautiful. Feelings are wonderful. It’s good to cry, it’s good to laugh, it’s good to love, it’s good to care, it’s good to have compassion. Feelings are what make us human. But values must always come first.
Hitler felt that Jews should be destroyed. Whites in South Africa felt that apartheid was right, that blacks shouldn’t be allowed to use white bathrooms or white restaurants or go to white businesses or live in white neighborhoods. Feelings cannot determine what is right.
In fact, the Bible repeatedly warns people not to rely on their hearts. If you want to know why so many people reject Bible-based religions, there it is: Most people want to be governed by their feelings and not have anyone—be it God or a book—tell them otherwise.
The battle in America and the rest of the Western world today is between the Bible and the heart.
Dennis Prager: Right and Wrong Are Not a Matter of Personal Opinion https://t.co/a3iSGBzxis
— The Free Press (@TheFP) February 19, 2026
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