In the 20th Century, it was the big government advocates who undermined the established social norms; the social values that mandated individual responsibility & accountability; that stigmatized having children out of wedlock; that ostracized those who engaged in anti-social behavior, of many forms.
The confusion, here, also reflects in part the effects of over-dependence on Government. People have the ridiculous notion that only via big-Government can we deal with anti-social behavior. This is because the big government crowd has basically undermined the whole effect of social stigmas, by suggesting that Government is society's only effective answer. It isn't, and wasn't.
William Flax [Truth Based Logic]
I concur.
Do you really think that the Founding Fathers would agree with the parts of the LP platform wanting, for instance, no laws against porn, abortion, prostitutes, sodomy, all drugs (meth, whatever) and open borders with anyone who wants sauntering right in? The FF had no problem with states having laws against immoral behavior. No libertarians ever adress this, no matter how many times I ask them particularly about this. They totally ignore that, and as such, they all debate (I use that term loosely) dishonestly.