Baby-sitting is certainly the role of govt when the people have no moral core. That's why in my view the rule of law and equality under the law is so important. The majority of people, where there is no generational, transcendental standard, cannot rule themselves and must be ruled. We have to fix that before anything else. Self-governance is downstream from morality.

Mollycoddling isn't the problem. The problem is that throughout the west the people have been convinced that they do not need God, which the beaurecrats immediately replaced with the state. Those of us who can self-govern must do so, while we ease away from the state and retrain people to respect God and themselves. I believe the moral perspective is to consider this is a rescue mission.