To follow up on that last post, The Hamster also links to an encouraging article about the generational divide over homosexuality in which Glenn Stanton, an analyst for the social conservative group Focus on the Family, gives a good example of the contrast between instrumentalists' love of trial and error versus romantics' love of the eternal:

"What kind of culture are [young people] going to be creating for us, and are those decisions good?" he asks. "They were raised in the midst of a huge family experiment called no-fault divorce.... They don't realize they're going to subject a whole other generation to another experiment."