[GraceG]

Unintentionally, your post exemplifies a major problem with modern political thought. You confuse legality, with “normalization” and “acceptance”. A free society, but one consisting of people who share a common sense of character and morality, do not need laws to tell them what is normal and acceptable.

True, the social construct can ONLY be enforced via the culture. We should as a culture look down upon people with loose and wobbly morals because it is our right to use free speech to ridicule the crazy people.

[jjsheridan5]

True, the social construct can ONLY be enforced via the culture. We should as a culture look down upon people with loose and wobbly morals because it is our right to use free speech to ridicule the crazy people.

That's the missing element. Shame is a good thing (for society). People should be ashamed when they do wrong (although not necessary something illegal), and people should let them know that they view them with contempt. But the children of the 60s did their job to well, and their selfish ideals removed this concept from society at-large. And so we find ourselves with a decaying society (in many areas, but not all), and lack the capacity to have any kind of shared code of ethics.