...when arguing against other fundamentalist dooms-dayers!
Not sure what the JW point was in mentioning it, but I remember reading in their lit a quote from Plato about how degraded the youths were of his time. (That doesn't help their "everything's getting worse" ideology so they must have been trying to counter it...) Anyway, reading an article for class that says "it makes sense to recall the way morality was transmitted before youth disorder became such a distressing issue."
I loved the quote I found as a retort (thanks Awake! for my "college education" ):
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" - Plato, 4th Century BC
Hmm...rioting in the streets inflamed with wild notions...kind of sounds fun...