We live in a competitive culture. Competition, by definition, means that there must be winners and losers. If a significant number people identify themselves as losers by using hyped external indices and we mix in the fact that they are in a transitional period in terms of human relationships and add to this an extraordinary over-indulgence in alcohol, we have a society which offers its young people limited values to guide them through a difficult period. We offer them a society which has thrown away most of its taboos but which has not replaced them with culturally appropriate taboos.