Are you suggesting that with out standards we should teach children that the law of the jungle is the way to live in this society? Many people want the "freedom" to abuse and disrespect people weaker than them. Some think God has assigned them the right to abuse people in His name. Should we just give everyone guns and see how that works? Should the movie, Lord of the Flies, be our social model? There was no civil authority in that movie about children left to their own devices. We should teach the checks and balances in the Constitution. We have never managed to provide those rights to all our citizens. That should be our goal as a nation. Civics should be required teaching as early as elementary school.