"Canadian court lifts ban on ‘swingers’ clubs"

Is the Western civilization choking on the Aristippulian consciousness? Has the the Western civilization, as represented by Canada and many European societies, gone mad or inching very close to it? At this rate, it will eventually collapse under the weight of its own excesses. Societies that become morally bankrupt will inevitably become essentially bankrupt. In their quest for what is clearly the phantom of pleasure, a state of mind that would make even Aristippus turn away in shame, they are indeed chasing after the wind. As everyone knows, it will not stop here. Someday, it will be sex with children, sex with mothers and fathers, sex with siblings, sex with corpses, sex with animals, and sex with who knows what the crazed and insatiable pleasure seekers will come up with next. As Dylan said, "sons becoming husbands to their mothers, old men turning their own daughters into whores."

It is a proven maxim that too much of anything is bad, be it food, drug, alcohol, or sex. There is a consequence to every excessive indulgence, as alcoholics, drug addicts, gambling addicts, pornography addicts, and bulimics know. The Western civilization in its collective addiction may very well meet the same fate, if people in western societies don't "wake up and strengthen the things that remain". Benjamin Franklin once said, "Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing brings more bondage than too much liberty". A philosopher of our time said, "The unqualified pursuit of freedom leads to unexpected outcomes". Samuel Adams said, "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy". Yes, the issue in question is with regards to Canada; nevertheless, Adam’s statement is still ominous.

History is sounding the alarm, but those who are committed to an irrational end are like mad people, they will heed no warning. Even Physics sounds the alarm: for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction (Newton's Third Law). Freedom without responsibility is akin to implicit gradual suicide and freedom without fidelity to truth is akin to theft and self subversion.