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It seems like there's no sense of the true origins of this liberation - no idea that the push for sexual and social equality in many societies was not something that just happened one day for no reason, but was born from tangible social and political struggle. For these men and women (and probably many men and women in the western world too), the drive for liberation and hedonism has been separated from its meaningful origins and repackaged as a shiny Louis Vuitton handbag or a supersize big mac meal - a casual lifestyle choice with "no strings attached" or social cost to bear. With no cost to bear and nothing to defend, the choice loses its meaning and value.
Separated from its wider social context and origins, people cease to consider the true costs and benefits of the uninhibited lifestyle; what it means for their individual life and their society.
A libertine who really thinks of the cost borne in the past and the present might choose to exercise at least some restraint and dignity, not because they had become some traitor or unequivocal enemy of social liberation; but because it's the rational thing to do in the persuit of a more genuine liberation, rather than the worthless liberation sold in neat, shiny packages.
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