True. However I don't know how many other people have noticed that the sixties generation, at least the most irresponsible ones, appear to be dying sooner than say, members of the World War II generation. As such, the problem may be "self correcting" through the process of natural selection.
Here is the problem: what needs to occur is a sea change in moral attitudes. The government is terrible at doing this. However there are some things that can be done -
Take the lid off religion - even the Dutch sex education programme combines it with religious education to snap the restraint of moral censure on sexual activity.
Empower parents - parents are blithely swimming along thinking the schools are going to substitute for genuine parenting, particularly on issues like this. It won't work.
Remove incentives for licentiousness - that means no more government benefits for welfare mothers, for example.
However what has to change for this problem to really be dealt with cannot be dealt with by legislation. We need to start looking at shame as being shameful, hedonism as being abnormal and dangerous, and sex a private preserve that best exists within the confines of marriage. It requires turning back the moral clock to before the 1960's. It's hard to see how that can be done without society realising on its own that it must. Perhaps the fact that sleeping around has turned singles bars into Petrie dishes for diseases that Saddam Hussein would envy, people will finally get the message. Maybe.
Regards, Ivan
I think that certain life styles do shorten life spans.
Morales have changed in our society over the past 30 or 40 years. How society acts is a direct result of taboo actions and acceptable behavior norms.
"Perhaps the fact that sleeping around has turned singles bars into Petrie dishes for diseases that Saddam Hussein would envy, people will finally get the message. Maybe. "
I think that Darwin's Law has some validity. The fittest will survive, but those who act like animals will not survive.