That rather depends on which moral standards you’re using to start with. For example, modern humans—men as well as women—are often seen in public wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt. Pope Paul VI may or may not have seen this as normal, but his predecessors surely would’ve condemned the practice as supremely immoral. Does this mean that moral standards had fallen during the past 500 or so years ?
That rather depends on which moral standards you’re using to start with. For example, modern humans—men as well as women—are often seen in public wearing nothing but shorts and a T-shirt. Pope Paul VI may or may not have seen this as normal, but his predecessors surely would’ve condemned the practice as supremely immoral. Does this mean that moral standards had fallen during the past 500 or so years ?