Nature abhors a vacuum. Where all is ethically relative, and youngsters are brought up with no objective morality, no values of right and wrong, the danger is society will be torn apart by vice, crime, violence, anarchy, and lawlessness.
Two vicious and perhaps simultaneously occurring overreactions could occur. Authoritarian or totalitarian strongman or oligarchs can inflict martial law upon society because tyranny ultimately is preferable to people than lawlessness and anarchy.
Second, the people will opt for some ideology and mass movement to find something drastic to believe in, that offers them meaning, answers, an escape from their insufferably blemished selves, etc.
We are better to live in a republic with just law and order under a constitutional system with a reasonable objective morality believed in and practice by the majority of the citizens. Such ordered liberty int he public arena and in private lives will prevent the people from resorting to such drastic measure as mentioned above.
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