> I imagine that the later generations will just adopt an "I don't care, let people do what they want" attitude. I guess that's possible, and in fact seems li

> I imagine that the later generations will just adopt an "I don't care, let people do what they want" attitude. I guess that's possible, and in fact seems like it's accelerating. But then again, what constitutes a vice is also changing. Take a different example. Surely climate change presents a significant social challenge, both immediate and downstream. Inasmuch as climate change is exacerbated by the vice of over-consumption, there's a great deal of social approbation in some circles against it and a number of proposals to regulate it. One wonders, of course, if a successful campaign against over consumption won't result in a future sometime where people forget the dangers of over-consumption and argue for a more libertarian approach. The idea that some vices aren't really immoral is not a new one; it's just that we have short memories and forget their very real dangers.