Riley259:
Look what’s happened during the last 40 years as proof that breaking those rules is correlated with the breaking down of the culture and society. When sexual contact is done only in the context of a sacramental marriage with its’ unitive and procreative aspects, both the person and society benefits.
I expect that having a sense of proportion is helpful when discussing the ‘breakdownn of society’. Certainly we can say that ciountries that have legislated for homosexual equality are actually very peaceful in general, such as Canada, Spain and Belgium. Countries that take liberal rational measures to counter drug problems have lower rates of drug related crime.
If there is an issue it rests, I suspect, with the economic pressure the peole who live in that society suffer (in western cultures at least).
In the last 40 years a lot of moral advances have been made; racism, sexism, violence towards women, child abuse and similar activities have been dealt with and cnotinue to be dealt with.
Culture continues. People write, sing, make films and TV shows, peoprty is written and recited, pictures are drawn and painted, science advances, diseases are cured money continues to lubricate the wheels of the economy, the political systems still exists, as does the justice system.
In general you are fairly safe, looting, riots, murders, and rape continue to be fairly low level (compare and contrast to war zones, where even 'civilised types like US and UK soldier indulge in torture and abuse).
Lets not have hysteria and panic over those things that simply make you feel uncomfortable or reject book-learnt morality.
We have brains as well as hormones.
The last 40 years is nothing special.
