# Comment on Mores **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 28, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-mores/636137 "2012-09-28T14:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fd10801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e5b9ba/32.png) [@fd10801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fd10801)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-mores/636137/1 "2012-09-28T14:26:39Z")
From [FactMonster](http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0847204.html) , “William Graham Sumner” As a sociologist he did valuable work in charting the evolution of human customs—folkways and mores. He concluded that the power of these forces, developed in the course of human evolution, rendered useless any attempts at social reform. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-mores/636137/2 "2012-09-28T14:53:08Z")
Well, I, for one, am convinced that drunk driving and smoking during pregnancy remain just as socially acceptable as they were in the 1940s. ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-mores/636137/3 "2012-10-01T16:06:08Z")
Is this relevant to a particular column? Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![Freakenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b782af/32.png) [@Freakenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freakenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-mores/636137/4 "2012-10-03T22:14:19Z")
[?This?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2331/why-are-milk-duds-called-milk-duds-plus)