By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - This kind of hedonism, this anti-pain kind, leads to what is (I think) the predominant theory of morality in America today, the theory that says, “We are free to do whatever we wish provided we cause no evident pain to others.” The trouble with this theory is not a small one: sooner or later, it will cause the moral disintegration of American society... And this disintegration, we can see, is already well advanced.