Wait, what? Our colleges are massive rollicking sex orgies that put whorehouses to shame? Where do you get this impression from? Now yes, people have made movies joking around about things like that, but those movies are generally comedies that are trying to be funny by presenting a huge exaggeration.Strazdas said:
Now if you wanted to be critical, you could point to teenage sex in the US in High Schools and such, and the problems that has caused, leading to a lot of arguments about sex education, and the distribution of condoms and such to teenagers as opposed to the standard practice of simply encouraging abstinence.
Of course given that the age of consent in Lithuania is only 14 apparently (http://www.evi.com/q/age_of_consent_lithuania) and you just talked about whorehouses like they operate legally, I don't see where you have much room to talk. By definition your country is far more sexually "free" and active than the US is likely to ever be. I won't make any moral judgements, but I'll be blunt in saying that simply propositioning a 14 year old in the US could get you thrown in jail and then put on a lifelong sex offender list... so uhh, no, the US isn't exactly a nation wide giant sex party, quite the opposite actually.
Typically comedies that portray the image of a more sexually "liberated" US are making fun of the entire system and trying to broadcast a message in the other direction in a lot of cases (but not always). At most being reflections of the idealogy of the creator, not what the US and it's laws are actually like.
Like everything though there *IS* an exception, in the US we have one particular state more or less set away for vice, and that's Nevada. Things like prostitution are legal in Nevada where it is outright banned in the other 49 states. Some cities like Las Vegas, known by the nickname "Sin City" here, can come close to the image that your suggesting, but college campuses and general day to day life? Not really. Simply buying adult entertainment can be tricky in the US due to needing special liscences to sell "X rated" movies, books, and video games, and most commercial areas are set up to directly forbid businesses specializing in that kind of thing from setting up. While every area DOES have some kind of "adult shop" around somewhere if you know where to look, sex is in general kept away from more general business dealings. You cannot for example go and buy an actual "adult film" at say Wal*Mart.
I suppose to an outsider things might seem a bit different because of the lengths Americans will occasionally go to in order to get this stuff, and most importantly get it quietly (at least from other Americans) to avoid attention and potential mockery. Porn still remains one thing that can be traded to the US pretty profitably if it can be done under the radar. Adult entertainment not being illegal, but as I said, it's a little more difficult to get than in a lot of other places.
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As far as morality goes, at the end of the day the needs for societal stability are such that in the end we're going to need one global culture, set of laws, and behind that set of laws one standard of right and wrong. On some levels what Hitler wanted to do was more or less correct for what humanity needs, but some of the things he had going along with that, were absolutely insane.
In a more practical sense though, one needs to work within and accept the standards of society, if you allow each individual to decide what is right and wrong and act accordingly you cannot effectively regulate and maintain order, as you will inevitably see conflicts between both people who believe they are right. The simple question of property ownership, and whether someone has the right to own something, whether everything belongs to everyone, or whether everything belongs to the state and is simply being allowed to be used by the people at it's whim, is for example one
of the biggest issues facing the world today. That's what the conflicts between socialists, communists, and capitalists are all about in a nutshell. Within a society everyone needs to operate based on the same standards, and thus before entertaining anything else people been to be shown how to live within their society and operate according to what is expected of them. The point about a world unity however is that this means inevitably all the different cultures are going to need to dissolve into one, and that ultimately means fighting it out until there is only going to be ONE group into which everyone is brought. Ideally a lot of this is going to happen through the simple spread of ideas, but in the end there is going to be violence, mass murder, and potentially even genocide for the benefit of the collective humanity. What's more given global resource depletion and the increased need to unify and get off the planet to find more resources if nothing else, we don't exactly have a lot of time for humanity to be unified.
Of course this goes into some very dark places, and I am quite aware of how it sounds like many, many, tyrannical conquerors throughout history on a number of fundamental levels. The thing is that the world, and life, generally suck, the cost of any nessicary change in real life is going to be horrifying, unlike in fantasy stories where good and evil are clearly defined and everything is guaranteed to work out for everyone in the end, and everyone can live together peacefully. In short, in the crappy real world we live in, for anything to work out, the good guy basically has to be the villain, and any large, positive change is going to have to be paid for through excessive amounts of pain and misery, including the very survivial of the human race, for which such a world unity is ultimately going to be necessary.
