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How dare they be young in public! No good will come of this! /s
I do agree that some kind of social project would be helpful - sport and religion used to do this function, but nowadays religion has been hijacked by extremists (of all kinds) and is no longer even geographically inclusive, and sport is either too 'professional' or is too much bother/expense to be inclusive. There really isn't an obvious forum of endeavour for those that aren't 'good at sport' or whatever.
My thesis is that the most addictive drug in the whole universe is - excellence. Once experienced, nothing else comes close. I fully endorse mobilizing community resources to find forums of endeavour that allow nearly everybody to experience excellence in some form or another.