content: I absolutely abhor the notion that the government should dictate the morals of the people. Not only it's totalitarian, it's been proven to make things far, far worse time and time again. Drug abuse, suicide epidemic, social retreat, "degeneracy" and many others are no more than symptoms of huge and complex problems that our societies have been trying to ignore because they have no easy solutions or are just too hard to understand. Sick societies create sick individuals, sick individuals are attracted to addictions and destructive practices while healthy ones are immune to them.  Dealing only with the symptoms invariably makes the original problem worse. Just take the misguided war on drugs for an example of how utterly disastrous this mentality can get. Be careful labeling "Degeneracy" (and similar problems) as the root of our problems, not only the shortsightedness of this has caused problems in the past but also you may walking the same line of thought behind the repugnant "SJWs" crying/bullying about racism, misogyny, etc.