“So allowing a vice to “prosper” is now a virtue.”
Who gets to define a vice? What is a vice? Answer: something somebody doesn’t like.
“Who gets to define a vice? What is a vice? Answer: something somebody doesn’t like.”
Society, religious beliefs, mores get to define it, in other words a nation’s culture. A society’s culture is both defined by the “freedoms” it allows, as well as define the limits the freedoms.
That’s why there are no libertarian “nations”. Taken to the limit, a libertarian nation would be a country of one.
And that’s why there is no such thing as absolute freedom (unless you’re living alone in nature, in which case then it is nature that puts a clamp on your freedoms).